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Nona Rose · @nona80_swanette
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This poem was inspired by the Christina Rossetti poem “The Convent Threshold” and I encourage you to read that poem if you haven’t already and then mine.

The Plight of Christina's Woman
©️ Nona Rose 2011

Can you see the stairs before me,
Leading up to solemn stars
Clothed in midnight, coal, oily black
And staring back with that conviction
That's eating into my heart and soul
As only those pious and lofty ones can

Am I treading these boards alone,
My love, my darling, lovely, cherished love,
Whose arms enclose me as I sleep
And when I wake, take me in such tender embrace
That angels blush when they catch sight
And turn their heads for holy shame?

🌹

If you’d like to read the rest of this poem, follow the link below. Let me know your thoughts, feelings, observations.

nonas-poetry-corner.blogspot.c



#poetry #poems #poet #poetrybynona #poetrycafe #poetrycommunity #writing #writingcommunity #christinarossetti #inspiration

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Andrew Shields · @AndrewShields
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#GwendolynBrooks #theodoreroethke #roberthayden #waltwhitman #christinarossetti #lordbyron #throughtraveler #poetry #folkrock #music #maxheinegg #111words

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hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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This is a bench with an extract from a book by local poet and author Christina Rossetti, wife of Gabriel Dante Rossetti. They resided in for a while. Here she describes my beloved Hastings Country Park which sits on the clifftops above the sea ... and in the height of summer, it still rings true today ... and I think it's just beautiful.

#hastings #words #poem #christinarossetti #nature #wildlife #countryside #bench #beauty

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hastingsmothman · @hastingsmothman
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This is a bench with an extract from a book by local poet and author Christina Rossetti, wife of Gabriel Dante Rossetti. They resided in for a while. Here she describes my beloved Hastings Country Park ... and in the height of summer, it still rings true today ... and I think it's just beautiful.

#hastings #words #poem #christinarossetti #nature #wildlife #countryside #bench #beauty

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Dylan Bragg · @dylanbragg
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"Goblin"

While possibly an allegory,
This poem tells a children’s story
With vivid and irregular rhymes,
Critiques the mores of the times,
Alludes to lust, forbidden fruits
Whose flesh, force-fed by groping brutes,
Refused by Lizzie, craved by Laura,
Is purchased in a plethora.

#scifiprompt #poetry #shortpoems #riddlepoems #english #poet #victorian #christinarossetti #goblinmarket #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

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Mike · @scrutans
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YouTube - My heart is like a singing bird (Sarah Rimkus)

Not sure if I’ve pitched this right…
I love the Gesualdo Six singing a setting of a poem ‘A Birthday’ by queer poet Christina Rossetti. The music is by the american composer Sarah Rimkus.
‘My heart is like a singing bird
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.’

youtu.be/Fv70fN5DgEI

#hooraysongoftheday #christinarossetti #queerpoet #queerpoetry #gesualdosix #queermusic #sarahrimkus

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Harry Watson · @Thebestisyettocome
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'Song' [When I am dead, my dearest] by Christina Rossetti who died on this day in 1894

When I am dead, my dearest,
    Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
    Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
    With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
    And if thou wilt, forget....

#christinarossetti #poetry

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· @RaimoKangasniemi
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#christinarossetti #kaannos #kaannoslyriikka #kaannosrunous #lyriikka #runo #runoja #runokaannos #runosuomennos #runot #runous #runoutta #suomennos

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· @RaimoKangasniemi
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#christinarossetti #kaannos #kaannoslyriikka #kaannosrunous #runo #runoja #prerafaeliitit #runot #runous #suomennos

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Harry Watson · @Thebestisyettocome
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'Here now is Winter. Winter, after all' by Christina Georgina Rossetti

Here now is Winter. Winter, after all,
Is not so drear as was my boding dream
While Autumn gleamed its latest watery gleam
On sapless leafage too inert to fall.
Still leaves and berries clothe my garden wall
Where ivy thrives on scantiest sunny beam..

#christinarossetti #winter #poetry

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· @RaimoKangasniemi
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#kaannosruno #kaannosrunous #lyriikka #runo #runoja #runokaannos #runosuomennos #runot #runous #runoutta #suomennos #christinarossetti #kirjallisuus #kaannos

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elizabeth veldon · @elizabethveldon
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elizabeth veldon - what can i give him, by elizabeth veldon

#christinarossetti #piano #freeimprovisation #christmasmusic #christmas

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Nenad Knezevic · @grammaticus
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The week's poetry post on my blog present Christina Rossetti's "A Christmas Carol", a.k.a. "In the Bleak Midwinter", one of my favourite carols.

The post includes a simple vocabulary exercise for English language learners, and the link to a lovely new rendition of this poem-turned-church hymn.

grammaticus.blog/2022/12/07/ro

#christmas #christmascarols #christinarossetti #blog #poetry #learningEnglish #englishteacher

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Monica Descalzi · @AustenMicrocosm
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My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.

Happy birthday, !

#christinarossetti

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Cheshire · @magdelenehall
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YouTube - In the bleak mid-winter (Holst, arr. Wilberg) | Carols from King's 2020

In the bleak mid-winter (Holst, arr. Wilberg) | Carols from King's 2020 on YouTube youtu.be/pTzqMi2AQF8

@classicalmusic
@britishcomposers



#christinarossetti #classicalmusic #britishcomposers #gustavholst

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David McK · @deemikay
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This jolly little rhyme of eye-colour in souls off to Hades is from Rossetti's 'Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book' from 1872.

Observation: the boatman doesn't care about your eye-colour just as long as you give him that penny ($8?)

#boatman #christinarossetti #todayspoem #apoemadayfromdeemikay #apoemaday

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David McK · @deemikay
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This jolly little rhyme of eye-colour in souls off to Hades is from Rossetti's 'Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book' from 1872.

Observation: the boatman doesn't care about your eye-colour just as long as you give him that penny ($8?)

#boatman #christinarossetti #todayspoem #apoemadayfromdeemikay #apoemaday

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RP Glover · @RPGlover
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#introduction #reacquainted #poetry #prose #comics #scifi #mystery #thriller #billycollins #philiplarkin #eecummings #langstonhughes #waltwhitman #marktwain #ernesthemmingway #christinarossetti #emilydickinson #RogerZelazny #jmdematteis #neilgaiman #bernardcornwell #dccomics #marvelcomics #wbd #dcuniverse #writingprompt #nfl #lacrosse #pll #rugby #Basketball

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