Short Name: | Christina Georgina Rossetti |
Full Name: | Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894 |
Birth Year: | 1830 |
Death Year: | 1894 |
Rossetti, Christina Georgina, daughter of Gabriel, and sister of Dante Gabriel and William Michael Rossetti, was born in London, Dec. 5, 1830, and received her education at home. Her published works include:—
(1) Goblin Market, and Other Poems, 1862; (2) The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems, 1866 ; (3) Poems, mainly a reprint of Nos. 1 and 2, 1875; (4) A Pageant, and Other Poems, 1881, &c.
In addition, Miss Rossetti has published several prose works, as:— Annus Domini (a book of prayers for every day in the year), 1874; Letter and Spirit of the Decalogue, 1883, and others. She has written very few hymns avowedly for church worship, but several centos have been compiled from her poems, and have passed into several hymn-books. These include:—
1. Dead is thy daughter, trouble not the Master. The raising of Jairus's daughter. From her Goblin Market, &c, 1862, into Lyra Mystica, 1865.
2. God the Father, give us grace. Invocation of the Holy Trinity. From Lyra Mystica into the Savoy Hymnary, for use in the Chapel Koyai, Savoy (see No. 8 below).
3. I bore with thee long weary days and nights. The Love of Christ. From her Goblin Market, &c, 1862, into Lyra Messianica, 1864.
4. I would have gone, God bade me stay. Resignation. From her Poems, Hymns, 1884, &c. 1875, into Horder's Congregational Hymns.
5. Once I thought to sit so high. A Body hast Thou prepared Me, or Passiontide. Contributed to Lyra Eucharistica, 1863.
6. The Advent moon shines cold and clear. Advent. From her Goblin Market, &c, 1862.
7 The flowers that bloom in sun and shade. The Eternity of God. In Mrs. C. Brock's Children's Hymn Book, 1881.
8. What are these that glow from afar? Martyrs. Part of the poem "We meet in joy though we part in sorrow," which appeared in Lyra Mystica, 1865, and then in Miss Rossetti's Prince's Progress, &c, 1866. It is the most widely used of her hymns. No. 2 above is also from the same poem.
Miss Rossetti's verses are profoundly suggestive and lyrical, and deserve a larger place than they occupy in the hymnody of the church. Her sonnets are amongst the finest in the English language. [Rev.W. Garrett Horder]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Rossetti, Christina G., p. 978, i. The following hymns by Miss Rossetti have recently come into common use:—
1. A burdened heart that bleeds and bears. [Lent.] In her Time Flies: A Reading Diary, ed. 1897, p. 59, for March 26; and her Verses, &c., ed. 1898, p. 113. Included in Church Hymns, 1903.
2. Give me the lowest place, not that I dare. [Humility.] From her Prince's Progress, 1866, p. 216.
3. In the bleak midwinter. [Christmas.] In her Poetical Works, 1904, p. 246, as "Before 1872"; repeated in The English Hymnal, 1906.
4. None other Lamb, none other Name. [Jesus, All, and in All] From her The Face of the Deep, &c, 1892 (3rd ed. 1895, p. 176); and her Verses, &c, 1898, p. 36. It is the second of two poetical meditations on Rev. v. 6. In Church Hymns, 1903.
5. The shepherds had an angel. [Christmas.] In her Poetical Works, 1904, p. 187, this is entitled "A Christmas Carol. For my Godchildren," and dated 6 October, 1856. Repeated in the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905.
6. We know not a voice of that River. [The River of the Eternal City.] In The Face of the Deep, &c, 1892 (3rd ed. 1895, p. 523), as a poetical meditation on Rev, xxii. Also in her Verses, &c., 1898, p. 81.
Additional works by Miss Rossetti to those named on p. 978, i., include Time Flies A Reading Diary, 1885; Called to be Saints, 1881; Seek and Find, 1879; The Face of the Deep, A Devotional Commentary on the Apocalypse, 1892; and Verses ... reprinted fromCalled to be Saints, Time Flies, The Face of the Deep, 1893. It must be noted that (1) the hymn attributed to her, "Dead is thy daughter; trouble not the Master," is not by her, but by Mrs. C. F. Alexander, with whose name it appeared in Lyra Mystica, 1865; and (2) her “I would be gone; God bade me stay," is from her Prince's Progress, 1866, p. 204. Miss Rossetti d. Dec. 29, 1891.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Texts by Christina Georgina Rossetti (49) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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How far is it to Bethlehem | Christina Rossetti (Author (st. 3)) | English | 1 |
Readings | Christina G. Rossetti (Author) | English | 1 |
Unanswered yet? The prayer your lips have pleaded | Christine Rossetti (Author) | English | 1 |
ആ ഘോര ശീതകാലെ മഞ്ഞിൻ കാറ്റൂതി (Ā ghēāra śītakāle maññin kāṟṟūti) | Christina Rosetti (Author) | Malayalam | 2 |
Before the paling of the stars | Christina Georgina Rossetti (Author) | English | 2 |
Contempt and pangs and haunting | Christina G. Rossetti, 1830-1894 (Author) | 2 | |
Content to come, content to go | Christina G. Rossetti (Author) | English | 2 |
Does the road wind up hill all the way? | Christina Georgina Rossetti (Author) | English | 2 |
En la vintromezo Muĝis frosta vent' | Christina Rossetti (Author) | Esperanto | 2 |
Frimas froids de l'hiver | Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) (Author) | French | 2 |
Give me the lowest place, Not that I dare | Christina Georgina Rossetti (Author) | English | 2 |
I have no wit, no words, no tears | Christina G. Rossetti (Author) | 2 | |
ക്രി-സ്ത സ്നേഹം -വന്നല്ലോ! (Kri-sta snēhaṁ -vannallēā!) | Christina Georgina Rossetti (Author) | Malayalam | 2 |
Love is the key of life and death | Christina Georgina Rossetti (Author) | 2 | |
O Christ, my God, who seest the unseen | Christina G. Rossetti (Author) | 2 | |
Once I thought to sit so high | Christina Georgina Rossetti (Author) | 2 | |
Prayers | Christina G. Rossetti (Author) | English | 2 |
Service and strength, God's angels and archangels | Christina Rossetti (Author) | 2 | |
The Advent moon shines cold and clear | Christina G. Rossetti (Author) | English | 2 |
The dear old woman in the lane | Christina Georgina Rossetti (Author) | 2 | |
The peach-tree on the southern wall | Christina G. Rossetti (Author) | 2 | |
The wise men left their country | Christina G. Rossetti (Author) | 2 | |
What do the stars do | Christina Georgina Rossetti (Author) | 2 | |
While Christ lay dead the widowed world | Christina Rossetti (Author) | 2 | |
Ya se abrió el cielo | Christina Georgina Rossetti (Author) | Spanish | 2 |
Am I a stone, and not a sheep | Christina G. Rossetti (Author) | English | 3 |
Bread and milk for breakfast | Christina G. Rossetti (Author) | English | 3 |
Consider the lilies of the field whose bloom is brief | Rossetti (Author) | English | 3 |
Fly away, fly away over the sea | Christina G. Rossetti (Author) | English | 3 |
I would have gone, God bade me stay | Christina G. Rosetti (Author) | English | 3 |
Jerusalem is built of gold | Christina Georgina Rossetti (Author) | English | 3 |
Sooner or later, yet at last | Christina G. Rossetti (Author) | 3 | |
Spring bursts today | Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) (Author) | English | 3 |
Thou who didst hang upon a barren tree | Christina G. Rossetti (Author) | English | 3 |
We know not a voice of that river | Christina G. Rossetti (Author) | English | 3 |
Wrens and robins in the hedge | Christina G. Rossetti (Author) | English | 3 |
Amo, je Kristnasko, terenvenis el ĉiel' | Christina Georgina Rossetti (Author) | Esperanto | 4 |
If all were rain and never sun | Christina G. Rossetti (Author) | English | 4 |
Therefore, O friend, I would not, if I might | Christina Rossetti (Author) | English | 5 |
O ye who taste that love is sweet | Christina G. Rossetti (Author) | English | 7 |
The flowers that bloom in sun and shade | Christina G. Rossetti (Author) | English | 7 |
What are these that glow from afar | Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) (Author) | English | 7 |
I bore with thee long weary days and nights | Christina G. Rossetti (Author) | English | 8 |
Who has seen the wind? | Christina G. Rossetti (Author) | English | 10 |
What can I give Him, poor as I am? | Christina G. Rossetti (Author) | English | 19 |
None other Lamb, none other name | Christina Georgina Rossetti, 1830-1894 (Author) | English | 23 |
The shepherds had an angel | Christina G. Rossetti (Author) | English | 23 |
Love came down at Christmas | Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) (Author) | English | 62 |
In the bleak midwinter | Christina Rossetti (Author) | English | 77 |