Poetry Codex

Victorian

Christina Rossetti

1830–1894

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) was an English poet of devotional intensity and quiet formal mastery, sister of the painter-poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Best known for ‘Goblin Market’ and the carol ‘In the Bleak Midwinter,’ she also wrote Sing-Song (1872), a book of nursery rhymes for children.

Poems (915)

  1. Angels at the foot
  2. Love me,—I love you
  3. Mother’s arms under you
  4. My baby has a father and a mother
  5. Our little baby fell asleep
  6. Kookoorookoo! kookoorookoo!”
  7. Kookoorookoo! kookoorookoo!”
  8. Baby cry—
  9. Eight o’clock
  10. Bread and milk for breakfast
  11. There’s snow on the fields
  12. My clothes are soft and warm
  13. Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush
  14. I dug and dug amongst the snow
  15. Melt, O snow! the warm winds blow
  16. A city plum is not a plum
  17. Your brother has a falcon
  18. I’ll nurse you on my knee, my knee
  19. Hear what the mournful linnets say
  20. They crushed the eggs so neatly laid
  21. A baby’s cradle with no baby in it
  22. Hop-o’-my-thumb and little Jack Horner
  23. Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.
  24. O wind, why do you never rest
  25. Crying, my little one, footsore and weary?
  26. You are my one, and I have not another
  27. Growing in the vale
  28. In a golden crown
  29. A linnet in a gilded cage,—
  30. But let the trees burst out in leaf
  31. Wrens and robins in the hedge
  32. My baby has a mottled fist
  33. Why did baby die
  34. Flowers, that bloom to die
  35. If all were rain and never sun
  36. O wind, where have you been
  37. The honeysuckle waits
  38. Brownie, Brownie, let down your milk
  39. On the grassy banks
  40. Rushes in a watery place
  41. Minnie and Mattie
  42. Such a bright day
  43. Pinky white pigling
  44. Cluck! cluck! the nursing hen
  45. Cluck! cluck! the mother hen
  46. Minnie and Mattie
  47. Give the sun time enough
  48. Don’t wait for roses
  49. Violets and primroses
  50. Heartsease in my garden bed
  51. If I were a Queen
  52. If I were a King
  53. What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow
  54. Stroke a flint, and there is nothing to admire
  55. There is but one May in the year
  56. Yet though it be the chilliest May
  57. The summer nights are short
  58. The summer days are short
  59. The days are clear
  60. Twist me a crown of wind-flowers
  61. Brown and furry
  62. A toadstool comes up in a night,—
  63. A pocket handkerchief to hem—
  64. Yet set a stitch and then a stitch
  65. If a pig wore a wig
  66. Seldom “can’t,”
  67. 1 and 1 are 2
  68. 2 and 2 are 4—
  69. 3 and 3 are 6
  70. 4 and 4 are 8
  71. 5 and 5 are 10
  72. 6 and 6 are 12
  73. 7 and 7 are 14
  74. 8 and 8 are 16
  75. 9 and 9 are 18
  76. 10 and 10 are 20
  77. 11 and 11 are 22
  78. 12 and 12 are 24
  79. How many seconds in a minute?
  80. How many minutes in an hour?
  81. How many hours in a day?
  82. How many days in a week?
  83. How many weeks in a month?
  84. How many months in a year?
  85. How many years in an age?
  86. How many ages in time?
  87. What will you give me for my pound?
  88. January cold desolate
  89. What is pink? a rose is pink
  90. Mother shake the cherry-tree
  91. A pin has a head, but has no hair
  92. Hopping frog, hop here and be seen
  93. Plodding toad, plod here and be looked at
  94. Where innocent bright-eyed daisies are
  95. The city mouse Jives in a house;—
  96. The city mouse eats bread and cheese;—
  97. What does the donkey bray about?
  98. Three plum buns
  99. One for you, and one for me
  100. A motherless soft lambkin
  101. Dancing on the hill-tops
  102. Playing games with lambkins
  103. If her father’s cottage
  104. When fishes set umbrellas up
  105. The peacock has a score of eyes
  106. Pussy has a whiskered face
  107. The dog lies in his kennel
  108. Pat the dog and stroke the cat
  109. If hope grew on a bush
  110. I planted a hand
  111. Under the ivy bush
  112. Under the ivy bush
  113. I am a King
  114. Elder the pithy
  115. There is one that has a head without an eye
  116. If a mouse could fly
  117. If a mouse could fly
  118. Sing me a song—
  119. Tell me a tale—
  120. The lily has an air
  121. Margaret has a milking-pail
  122. In the meadow—what in the meadow?
  123. A frisky lamb
  124. Mix a pancake
  125. The wind has such a rainy sound
  126. The apples in the orchard
  127. Three little children
  128. Three little children
  129. Fly away, fly away over the sea
  130. Minnie bakes oaten cakes
  131. A white hen sitting
  132. An owl, and a hawk
  133. Currants on a bush
  134. Playing at bob cherry
  135. Tom bobs a cherry
  136. Look, look, look—
  137. I have but one rose in the world
  138. Rosy maiden Winifred
  139. Blind from my birth
  140. When the cows come home the milk is coming
  141. Roses blushing red and white
  142. Ding a ding,”
  143. Dong a dong,”
  144. A ring upon her finger
  145. A veil upon her forehead
  146. Fling flowers beneath the footsteps
  147. Ferry me across the water
  148. I have a penny in my purse
  149. Step into my ferry-boat
  150. When a mounting skylark sings
  151. But when a nightingale sings
  152. Who has seen the wind?
  153. Who has seen the wind?
  154. The horses of the sea
  155. The horses of the land
  156. O sailor, come ashore
  157. I did not dig it from the ground
  158. A diamond or a coal?
  159. A diamond or a coal?
  160. An emerald is as green as grass
  161. A diamond is a brilliant stone
  162. Boats sail on the rivers
  163. There are bridges on the rivers
  164. The lily has a smooth stalk
  165. There’s sweetness in an apple tree
  166. When with moss and honey
  167. Hurt no living thing
  168. I caught a little ladybird
  169. Come back, my scarlet ladybird
  170. She’s such a senseless wooden thing
  171. All the bells were ringing
  172. Wee wee husband
  173. Wee wee wifie
  174. I have a little husband
  175. The winds that sigh about me
  176. The dear old woman in the lane
  177. We’ll stop to make the kettle boil
  178. Swift and sure the swallow
  179. I dreamt I caught a little owl
  180. But you may hunt for ever
  181. I dreamt I set a sunflower
  182. But such a sunflower never
  183. What does the bee do?
  184. I have a Poll parrot
  185. Polly!” cried Polly
  186. A house of cards
  187. Find the Court cards
  188. The rose with such a bonny blush
  189. The rose that blushes rosy red
  190. Oh, fair to see
  191. Oh, fair to see
  192. Clever little Willie wee
  193. Little Willie in his heart
  194. The peach tree on the southern wall
  195. A peach for brothers, one for each
  196. A rose has thorns as well as honey
  197. Is the moon tired? she looks so pale
  198. Before the coming of the night
  199. If stars dropped out of heaven
  200. Winged angels might fly down to us
  201. Goodbye in fear, goodbye in sorrow
  202. If the sun could tell us half
  203. If the moon came from heaven
  204. I’ve seen a hundred pretty things
  205. O Lady Moon, your horns point toward the east
  206. What do the stars do
  207. Each star in its own glory
  208. Motherless baby and babyless mother
  209. Crimson curtains round my mother’s bed
  210. Baby lies so fast asleep
  211. Baby lies so fast asleep
  212. I know a baby, such a baby,—
  213. Cuddle and love me, cuddle and love me,”
  214. Lullaby, oh, lullaby!
  215. Lie a-bed
  216. Goblin Market
  217. In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857
  218. Dream Land
  219. At Home
  220. A Triad
  221. Love from the North
  222. Winter Rain
  223. Cousin Kate
  224. Noble Sisters
  225. Spring
  226. The Lambs of Grasmere, 1860
  227. A Birthday
  228. Remember
  229. After Death
  230. An End
  231. My Dream
  232. Song (Oh roses for the flush of youth)
  233. The Hour and the Ghost
  234. A Summer Wish
  235. An Apple Gathering
  236. Song (Two doves upon the selfsame branch)
  237. Maude Clare
  238. Echo
  239. My Secret
  240. Another Spring
  241. A Peal of Bells
  242. Fata Morgana
  243. 'No, Thank You, John'
  244. May
  245. A Pause of Thought
  246. Twilight Calm
  247. Wife to Husband
  248. Three Seasons
  249. Mirage
  250. Shut Out
  251. Sound Sleep
  252. Song (She sat and sang alway)
  253. Song (When I am dead, my dearest)
  254. Dead Before Death
  255. Bitter for Sweet
  256. Sister Maude
  257. Rest
  258. The First Spring Day
  259. The Convent Threshold
  260. Up-Hill
  261. 'The Love of Christ Which Passeth Knowledge'
  262. 'A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break'
  263. A Better Resurrection
  264. Advent
  265. The Three Enemies
  266. The One Certainty
  267. Christian and Jew
  268. Sweet Death
  269. Symbols
  270. 'Consider the Lilies of the Field'
  271. The World
  272. A Testimony
  273. Sleep at Sea
  274. From House to Home
  275. Old and New Year Ditties
  276. Amen
  277. The Prince's Progress
  278. Maiden-Song
  279. Jessie Cameron
  280. Spring Quiet
  281. The Poor Ghost
  282. A Portrait
  283. Dream-Love
  284. Twice
  285. Songs in a Cornfield
  286. A Year's Windfalls
  287. The Queen of Hearts
  288. One Day
  289. A Bird's-Eye View
  290. Light Love
  291. A Dream
  292. A Ring Posy
  293. Beauty Is Vain
  294. Lady Maggie
  295. What Would I Give?
  296. The Bourne
  297. Summer
  298. Autumn
  299. The Ghost's Petition
  300. Memory
  301. A Royal Princess
  302. Shall I Forget?
  303. Vanity of Vanities
  304. L. E. L.
  305. Life and Death
  306. Bird or Beast?
  307. Eve
  308. Grown and Flown
  309. A Farm Walk
  310. Somewhere or Other
  311. A Chill
  312. Child's Talk in April
  313. Gone for Ever
  314. Under the Rose
  315. Despised and Rejected
  316. Long Barren
  317. If Only
  318. Dost Thou Not Care?
  319. Weary in Well-doing
  320. Martyrs' Song
  321. After This the Judgement
  322. Good Friday
  323. The Lowest Place
  324. Death's Chill Between
  325. Heart's Chill Between
  326. Repining
  327. Sit Down in the Lowest Room
  328. My Friend
  329. Last Night
  330. Consider
  331. Helen Grey
  332. 'By the Waters of Babylon'
  333. Seasons
  334. Mother Country
  335. A Smile and a Sigh
  336. Dead Hope
  337. Autumn Violets
  338. 'They Desire a Better Country'
  339. The Offering of the New Law
  340. Conference Between Christ, the Saints, and the Soul
  341. 'Come Unto Me'
  342. 'Jesus, Do I Love Thee?'
  343. 'I Know You Not'
  344. 'Before the Paling of the Stars'
  345. Easter Even
  346. Paradise: in a Dream
  347. Within the Veil
  348. Paradise: in a Symbol
  349. Amor Mundi
  350. Who Shall Deliver Me?
  351. If
  352. Twilight Night
  353. Confluents
  354. Love Lies Bleeding
  355. Later Life
  356. Song
  357. Italia, Io ti Saluto!
  358. Aloof
  359. Bride Song
  360. A Prayer
  361. Marvel of Marvels
  362. Wisdom
  363. A Last Prayer
  364. Hymn, after Gabriele Rossetti
  365. After Communion
  366. From Sunset to Star Rise
  367. A Dirge (Why were you born when the snow was falling?)
  368. The German-French Campaign, 1870-71
  369. Song (Oh what comes over the sea)
  370. By the Sea
  371. Days of Vanity
  372. Enrica, 1865
  373. Once for All
  374. A Green Cornfield
  375. A Bride Song
  376. A Daughter of Eve
  377. Venus' Looking-Glass
  378. Bird Raptures
  379. A Bird Song
  380. The Key-Note
  381. Pastime
  382. Mirrors of Life and Death
  383. A Ballad of Boding
  384. Yet a Little While (I dreamed and did not seek)
  385. He and She
  386. Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets
  387. Luscious and Sorrowful
  388. De Profundis
  389. Tempus Fugit
  390. Golden Glories
  391. Johnny
  392. Hollow-sounding and Mysterious
  393. Maiden May
  394. Till To-morrow
  395. Death-Watches
  396. Touching "Never"
  397. Brandons Both
  398. A Life's Parallels
  399. At Last
  400. Golden Silences
  401. In the Willow Shade
  402. Fluttered Wings
  403. A Fisher-Wife
  404. What's in a Name?
  405. Mariana
  406. Memento Mori
  407. One Foot on Sea, and One on Shore
  408. Buds and Babies
  409. Boy Johnny
  410. Freaks of Fashion
  411. An October Garden
  412. Summer Is Ended (To think that this meaningless thing was ever a rose)
  413. Passing and Glassing
  414. Soeur Louise de la Miséricorde, 1674
  415. An "Immurata" Sister
  416. An Old-World Thicket
  417. Later Life: A Double Sonnet of Sonnets
  418. Birchington Churchyard
  419. One Sea-side Grave
  420. Brother Bruin
  421. A Helpmeet for Him
  422. A Song of Flight
  423. A Wintry Sonnet
  424. Resurgam
  425. To-day's Burden
  426. There Is a Budding Morrow in Midnight
  427. Exultate Deo
  428. The Whole Head Is Sick and the Whole Heart Faint
  429. Lady Montrevor
  430. Sonnet Written to Bouts-rimes (Amid the shades of a deserted hall)
  431. Sonnet Written to Bouts-rimes (I sit among green shady valleys oft)
  432. Sonnet Written to Bouts-rimes (Wouldst thou give me a heavy jewelled crown)
  433. Sonnet Written to Bouts-rimes (I said within myself: I am a fool)
  434. Sonnet Written to Bouts-rimes (I sought among the living, and I seek)
  435. Sonnet Written to Bouts-rimes (Ah welladay and wherefore am I here)
  436. Sonnet Written to Bouts-rimes (And is this August weather? Nay, not so)
  437. Sonnet Written to Bouts-rimes (Methinks the ills of life I fain would shun)
  438. The Plague
  439. Sonnet Written to Bouts-rimes (Would that I were a turnip white)
  440. Sonnet Written to Bouts-rimes (I fancy the good fairies dressed in white)
  441. Vanity Fair
  442. On Keats
  443. Have Patience
  444. To Lalla, Reading My Verses Topsy-turvy
  445. Three Nuns
  446. The End of the First Part
  447. Two Enigmas
  448. Two Charades
  449. Looking Forward
  450. Life Hidden
  451. Queen Rose
  452. How One Chose
  453. Seeking Rest
  454. Two Thoughts of Death
  455. Three Moments
  456. Is and Was
  457. Song (We buried her among the flowers)
  458. Annie
  459. A Dirge (She was as sweet as violets in the Spring)
  460. Song (It is not for her even brow)
  461. A Fair World though a Fallen
  462. Books in the Running Brooks
  463. The Summer Is Ended
  464. After All
  465. From the Antique (The wind shall lull us yet)
  466. To What Purpose Is This Waste?
  467. Next of Kin
  468. Portraits
  469. What?
  470. Seasons (In springtime when the leaves are young)
  471. Buried
  472. A Wish
  473. Two Parted
  474. For Rosaline's Album
  475. Autumn (Care flieth)
  476. Seasons (Crocuses and snowdrops wither)
  477. Ballad
  478. A Soul
  479. From the Antique (It's a weary life, it is, she said)
  480. Restive
  481. Long Looked For
  482. Listening
  483. The Last Look
  484. I Have a Message unto Thee
  485. Cobwebs
  486. An After-thought
  487. To the End
  488. May (Sweet Life is dead)
  489. By the Water
  490. A Chilly Night
  491. Let Patience Have Her Perfect Work
  492. In the Lane
  493. Acme
  494. A Bed of Forget-me-nots
  495. Look on This Picture and on This
  496. Gone Before
  497. Winter
  498. Introspective
  499. Day-dreams
  500. A Nightmare
  501. For One Sake
  502. From Metastasio
  503. To-day and To-morrow
  504. Yet a Little While (These days are long before I die)
  505. Father and Lover
  506. What Good Shall My Life Do Me?
  507. Promises like Pie-crust
  508. Better So
  509. Our Widowed Queen
  510. In Progress
  511. June
  512. A Dumb Friend
  513. To-morrow
  514. Margery
  515. Sunshine
  516. Meeting (If we shall live, we live)
  517. Under Willows
  518. A Sketch
  519. If I Had Words
  520. Husband and Wife
  521. What to Do?
  522. In a Certain Place
  523. Cannot Sweeten
  524. Of My Life
  525. Love's Name
  526. By Way of Remembrance
  527. An Echo from Willow-wood
  528. Golden Holly
  529. An Alphabet
  530. Cor Mio
  531. Who Shall Say?
  532. Life
  533. Meeting (I said good-bye in hope)
  534. My Mouse
  535. A Poor Old Dog
  536. Parted
  537. Counterblast on Penny Trumpet
  538. Michael F. M. Rossetti
  539. The Way of the World
  540. To My Fior-di-Lisa
  541. Sleeping at Last
  542. To My Mother on the Anniversary of Her Birth
  543. Hymn
  544. Love and Hope
  545. On Albina
  546. Forget Me Not
  547. Charity
  548. Earth and Heaven
  549. Love Ephemeral
  550. Burial Anthem
  551. Summer (Hark to the song of greeting)
  552. Serenade
  553. The End of Time
  554. Mother and Child
  555. On the Death of a Cat, a Friend of Mine Aged Ten Years and a Half
  556. Love Attacked
  557. Love Defended
  558. The Martyr
  559. The Dying Man to His Betrothed
  560. The Dead Bride
  561. Will These Hands Ne'er Be Clean?
  562. Present and Future
  563. The Time of Waiting
  564. Tasso and Leonora
  565. The Solitary Rose
  566. The Song of the Star
  567. Resurrection Eve
  568. The Dead City
  569. The Rose
  570. I Have Fought a Good Fight
  571. Wishes
  572. The Dream
  573. Eleanor
  574. Isidora
  575. Zara
  576. The Novice
  577. Lady Isabella
  578. Night and Death
  579. The Lotus-eaters
  580. Sonnet from the Psalms
  581. Song (The stream moaneth as it floweth)
  582. The World's Harmonies
  583. The Last Answer
  584. Alone Lord God, in Whom our trust and peace
  585. Seven vials hold Thy wrath: but what can hold
  586. Where neither rust nor moth doth corrupt
  587. As the sparks fly upwards
  588. Lord, make us all love all: that when we meet
  589. O Lord, I am ashamed to seek Thy Face
  590. It is not death, O Christ, to die for Thee
  591. Lord, grant us eyes to see and ears to hear
  592. Cried out with tears
  593. O Lord, on Whom we gaze and dare not gaze
  594. I will come and heal him
  595. Ah Lord, Lord, if my heart were right with Thine
  596. The gold of that land is good
  597. Weigh all my faults and follies righteously
  598. Lord, grant me grace to love Thee in my pain
  599. Lord, make me one with Thine own faithful ones
  600. Light of Light
  601. The ransomed of the Lord
  602. In exceeding bitter cry
  603. Thou, God, seest me
  604. Lord Jesus, who would think that I am Thine?
  605. The Name of Jesus
  606. Lord God of Hosts, most Holy and most High
  607. Lord, what have I that I may offer Thee?
  608. If I should say “my heart is in my home,”
  609. Leaf from leaf Christ knows
  610. Lord, carry me.—Nay, but I grant thee strength
  611. Lord, I am here.—But, child, I look for thee
  612. New creatures; the Creator still the Same
  613. Kings of Kings and Lord of Lords
  614. Thy Name, O Christ, as incense streaming forth
  615. The Good Shepherd
  616. Rejoice with me
  617. Me and my gift: kind Lord, behold
  618. He cannot deny Himself
  619. Stain from the foundation of the world
  620. Lord Jesu, Thou art sweetness to my soul
  621. I, Lord, Thy foolish sinner low and small
  622. Because He first loved us
  623. Lord, hast Thou so loved us, and will not we
  624. As the dove which found no rest
  625. Thou art fairer than the children of men
  626. As the Apple Tree among the trees of the wood
  627. None other Lamb, none other Name
  628. Thy friend and thy Father’s friend forget not
  629. Surely He hath borne our griefs
  630. Darkness and light are both alike to Thee
  631. And now why tarriest thou?
  632. Have I not striven, my God, and watched and prayed?
  633. God is our Hope and Strength
  634. Day and night the Accuser makes no pause
  635. O mine enemy
  636. Lord, dost Thou look on me, and will not I
  637. Peace I leave with you
  638. O Christ our All in each, our All in all!
  639. Because Thy Love hath sought me
  640. Life as the hart desireth the water brooks
  641. That where I am, there ye may be also
  642. Judge not according to the appearance
  643. My God, wilt Thou accept, and will not we
  644. A chill blank world. Yet over the utmost sea
  645. The Chiefest among ten thousand
  646. Behold, the Bridegroom cometh: go ye out
  647. Earth grown old, yet still so green
  648. Sooner or later: yet at last
  649. Christmas hath a darkness
  650. A baby is a harmless thing
  651. Love came down at Christmas
  652. Earth cannot bar flame from ascending
  653. They scarcely waked before they slept
  654. We bloom among the blooming flowers
  655. Unspotted lambs to follow the one Lamb
  656. Lord Babe, if Thou art He
  657. Trembling before Thee we fall down to adore Thee
  658. So run that ye may obtain
  659. Cursed is the ground for thy sake
  660. That Eden of earth’s sunrise cannot vie
  661. Love is alone the worthy law of love
  662. Piteous my rhyme is
  663. My God, my God, have mercy on my sin
  664. Good Lord, to-day
  665. It is good to be last not first
  666. I saw a Saint.—How canst thou tell that he
  667. Is any grieved or tired? Yea, by God’s Will
  668. It is the greatness of Thy love, dear Lord
  669. Thou callest: “Come at once”—and still Thou
  670. He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God
  671. The Voice of my Beloved
  672. By Thy long-drawn anguish to atone
  673. Man’s life is death. Yet Christ endured to live
  674. And the Vine said...Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
  675. Bearing His Cross
  676. Lord Jesus Christ, grown faint upon the Cross
  677. Bring forth the Spear
  678. A bundle of myrrh is my Well-beloved unto me
  679. The tempest over and gone, the calm begun
  680. Our Church palms are budding willow twigs
  681. Words cannot utter
  682. Out in the rain a world is growing green
  683. Together with my dead body shall they arise
  684. Who scatters tares shall reap no wheat
  685. O Lord Almighty, Who hast formed us weak
  686. A Cloud received Him out of their sight
  687. “As many as I love.”—Ah, Lord, Who lovest all
  688. When the day of Pentecost was fully come
  689. A pure River of Water of Life
  690. Lord Jesus Christ, our Wisdom and our Rest
  691. My God, Thyself being Love Thy heart is love
  692. O blessed Paul elect to grace
  693. In weariness and painfulness St. Paul
  694. Long and dark the nights, dim and short the days
  695. O firstfruits of our grain
  696. Purity born of a Maid
  697. All weareth, all wasteth
  698. Whereto shall we liken this Blessed Mary Virgin
  699. Herself a rose, who bore the Rose
  700. Once like a broken bow Mark sprang aside
  701. St. Barnabas, with John his sister’s son
  702. O Jesu, gone so far apart
  703. “Launch out into the deep,” Christ spake of old
  704. Lord, Lover of Thy Peter, and of him
  705. St. Peter once: “Lord, dost Thou wash my feet?”
  706. I followed Thee, my God, I followed Thee
  707. Lord, to Thine own grant watchful hearts and eyes
  708. He bore an agony whereof the name
  709. He that excel in strength
  710. Up, my drowsing eyes!
  711. As grains of sand, as stars, as drops of dew
  712. Once slain for Him who first was slain for them
  713. I gave a sweet smell
  714. Hark! the Alleluias of the great salvation
  715. A Song for the Least of All Saints
  716. The end of all things is at hand. We all
  717. Love loveth Thee, and wisdom loveth Thee
  718. Lord, give me love that I may love Thee much
  719. As a king,...unto the King
  720. O ye who love to-day
  721. Life that was born to-day
  722. Perfect Love casteth out Fear
  723. Hope is the counterpoise of fear
  724. Subject to like passions as we are
  725. Experience bows a sweet contented face
  726. Charity never faileth
  727. The Greatest of these is charity
  728. All beneath the sun hasteth
  729. If thou be dead, forgive and thou shalt live
  730. Let patience have her perfect work
  731. Patience must dwell with Love, for Love and Sorrow
  732. Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord
  733. What is the beginning? Love. What the course? Love still
  734. Lord, make me pure
  735. Love, to be love, must walk Thy way
  736. Lord, I am feeble and of mean account
  737. They shall be as white as snow
  738. Thy lilies drink the dew
  739. When I was in trouble I called upon the Lord
  740. Grant us such grace that we may work Thy Will
  741. Who hath despised the day of small things?
  742. Do this, and he doeth it
  743. That no man take thy Crown
  744. We are come unto mount Zion
  745. Lord, give me grace
  746. Lord, it is good for us to be here
  747. Lord, grant us grace to rest upon Thy word
  748. A vain Shadow
  749. Lord, save us, we perish
  750. What is this above thy head
  751. Babylon the Great
  752. Standing afar off for the fear of her torment
  753. O Lucifer, Son of the Morning!
  754. As froth on the face of the deep
  755. Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched
  756. Toll, bell, toll. For hope is flying
  757. Earth has clear call of daily bells
  758. Escape to the fountain
  759. Yet a little while
  760. Behold, it was very good
  761. Whatsoever is right, that shall we receive
  762. This near-at-hand land breeds pain by measure
  763. Was Thy Wrath against the Sea?
  764. And there was no more Sea
  765. Thou who must fall silent in a while
  766. Roses on a brier
  767. We are of those who tremble at Thy word
  768. Awake, thou that sleepest
  769. We know not when, we know not where
  770. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills
  771. Then whose shall those things be?
  772. This banner over me was Love
  773. Beloved, yield thy time to God, for He
  774. Time seems not short
  775. The half moon shows a face of plaintive sweetness
  776. As the Doves to their windows
  777. Oh knell of a passing time
  778. Time passeth away with its pleasure and pain
  779. The Earth shall tremble at the Look of Him
  780. Time lengthening, in the lengthening seemeth long
  781. All flesh is Grass
  782. Heaven’s chimes are slow, but sure to strike at last
  783. There remaineth therefore a Rest to the people of God
  784. Parting after parting
  785. They put their trust in Thee, and were not confounded. (I)
  786. They put their trust in Thee, and were not confounded. (II)
  787. Short is time, and only time is bleak
  788. For Each
  789. For All
  790. The Holy City, New Jerusalem
  791. When wickedness is broken as a tree
  792. Jerusalem of fire
  793. She shall be brought unto the King
  794. Who sits with the King in His Throne?
  795. Antipas
  796. Beautiful for situation
  797. Lord, by what inconceivable dim road
  798. As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country
  799. Cast down but not destroyed, chastened not slain
  800. Lift up thine eyes to seek the invisible
  801. Love is strong as Death
  802. Let them rejoice in their beds
  803. Slain in their high places: fallen on rest
  804. What hath God wrought!
  805. Before the throne, and before the Lamb
  806. He shall go no more out
  807. Yea, blessed and holy is he that hath part in
  808. The joy of Saints, like incense turned to fire
  809. What are these lovely ones, yea, what are these?
  810. The General Assembly and Church of the Firstborn
  811. Every one that is perfect shall be as his master
  812. As dying, and behold we live!
  813. So great a cloud of Witnesses
  814. Our Mothers, lovely women pitiful
  815. Safe where I cannot lie yet
  816. It is well with the child?
  817. Dear Angels and dear disembodied Saints
  818. To every seed his own body
  819. What good shall my life do me? Have dead men long to wait?
  820. Her Seed; It shall bruise thy head
  821. Judge nothing before the time
  822. How great is little man!
  823. Man’s life is but a working day
  824. If not with hope of life
  825. The day is at hand
  826. Endure bareness
  827. Whither the Tribes go up, even the Tribes of the Lord
  828. Where never tempest heaveth
  829. Cold it is, my beloved, since your funeral bell was tolled
  830. What is that to thee? follow thou me
  831. Worship God
  832. Afterward he repented, and went
  833. Are they not all Ministering Spirits?
  834. Our life is long. Not so, wise Angels say
  835. Lord, make us like Thy Host who day nor night
  836. Lord, what have I to offer? sickening fear
  837. Joy is but sorrow
  838. Can I know it?—Nay
  839. On a past May-day
  840. When my heart is vexed I will complain
  841. Praying always
  842. As thy days, so shall thy strength be
  843. A heavy heart, if ever heart was heavy
  844. If love is not worth loving, then life is not worth living
  845. What is it Jesus saith unto the soul?
  846. Give thanks to-day, and let to-morrow take
  847. They lie at rest, our blessed dead
  848. Ye that fear him, both small and great
  849. Called to be Saints
  850. The sinner’s own fault? So it was
  851. Who cares for earthly bread tho’ white?
  852. Laughing Life cries at the feast
  853. The end is not yet
  854. Who would wish back the Saints upon our rough
  855. Of each sad word which is more sorrowful
  856. I see that all things come to an end
  857. Just thy commandment is exceeding broad
  858. Sursum Corda
  859. O ye, who are not dead and fit
  860. O ye who taste that love is sweet
  861. Where shall I find a white rose blowing?
  862. Redeeming the Time
  863. Now they desire a better Country
  864. A Castle-Builder’s World
  865. These all wait upon Thee
  866. Doeth well...doeth better
  867. Our heaven must be within ourselves
  868. Of all the downfalls in the world
  869. The hills are tipped with sunshine, while I walk
  870. Scarce tolerable life, which all life long
  871. All heaven is blazing yet
  872. That which I chose, I choose
  873. Balm in Gilead
  874. In the day of his Espousals
  875. She came from the uttermost part of the earth
  876. Alleluia! or Alas! my heart is crying
  877. The Passion Flower hath sprung up tall
  878. God’s Acre
  879. The flowers appear on the Earth
  880. Thou knewest...thou oughtest therefore
  881. Go in peace
  882. Half Dead
  883. One of the Soldiers with a Spear pierced his Side
  884. Where love is, there comes sorrow
  885. Bury Hope out of sight
  886. A Churchyard Song of Patient Hope
  887. One woe is past. Come what come will
  888. Take no thought for the morrow
  889. Consider the Lillies of the field
  890. Son, remember
  891. Heaviness may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning
  892. The Will of the Lord be done
  893. Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven
  894. Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth
  895. Then shall ye shout
  896. Everything that is born must die
  897. Lord, grant us calm, if calm can set forth Thee
  898. Changing Chimes
  899. Thy Servant will go and fight with this Philistine
  900. Thro’ burden and heat of the day
  901. Then I commended Mirth
  902. Sorrow hath a double voice
  903. Shadows to-day, while shadows show God’s Will
  904. Truly the light is sweet
  905. Are ye not much better than they?
  906. I am small and of no reputation
  907. O Christ my God Who seest the unseen
  908. O foolish Soul! to make thy count
  909. The goal in sight! Look up and sing
  910. Looking back along life’s trodden way
  911. It is finished
  912. A Pause
  913. Heaven Overarches
  914. A Christmas Carol
  915. Holy Innocents

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