Rossetti wrote a collection of verses for children in 1872. It was titled SING-SONG and was illustrated by Arthur Hughes. But she is best known for her ballads and her mystic religious lyrics.
Her poetry is marked by symbolism and intense feeling.
Rossetti's best-known work, Goblin Market and Other Poems, was published in 1862. The collection established Rossetti as a significant voice in Victorian poetry.
By the 1880s, recurrent bouts of Graves' disease made Rossetti an invalid, and ended her attempts to work as a governess. She died of cancer on December 29, 1894.
WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND?
by Christina Rossetti
by Christina Rossetti
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Watercolor by ARIS ILLUSTRATION |
Neither I nor you.
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I.
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.
IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER...
Advent and Christmas poems, posthumously published in her POETIC WORKSGustav Holtz version, performed by James Taylor
Harold Darke version, performed by Winchester Cathedral Choir