• Home >
  • Primary Sources >
  • Poetry >
  • Christina Rossetti >
  • Christina Rossetti: Love from the North

TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.

Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

Current Events This Week: January 2023

African Americans by the Numbers

Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents

The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales

 

Love from the NorthI had a love in soft south land, Beloved through April far in May; He waited on my lightest breath, And never dared to say me nay.He saddened if my cheer was sad, But gay he grew if I was gay; We never differed on a hair, My yes his yes, my nay his nay.The wedding hour was come, the aisles Were flushed with sun and flowers that day; I pacing balanced in my thoughts: ‘It’s quite too late to think of nay.’—My bridegroom answered in his turn, Myself had almost answered ‘yea:’ When through the flashing nave I heard A struggle and resounding ’nay.‘Bridemaids and bridegroom shrank in fear, But I stood high who stood at bay: ‘And if I answer yea, fair Sir, What man art thou to bar with nay?’ He was a strong man from the north, Light-locked, with eyes of dangerous grey: ‘Put yea by for another time In which I will not say thee nay.‘He took me in his strong white arms, He bore me on his horse away O’er crag, morass, and hairbreadth pass, But never asked me yea or nay.He made me fast with book and bell, With links of love he makes me stay; Till now I’ve neither heart nor power Nor will nor wish to say him nay.

Goblin Market, and Other Poems, 1862

.com/t/poetry/rossetti/love-from-the-north.html .com/t/poetry/rosetti/love-from-the-north.html .com/t/poetry/rossetti/love-from-the-north.html

Sources +

Our Common Sources

.com/t/poetry/rossetti/love-from-the-north.html

.com/t/poetry/rosetti/love-from-the-north.html

Sources +

Our Common Sources

Our Common Sources

Christina Rossetti: Maiden-Song

  • Christina Rossetti: Maiden-Song

TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.

Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

Current Events This Week: January 2023

African Americans by the Numbers

Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents

The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales

TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.

Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

Current Events This Week: January 2023

African Americans by the Numbers

Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents

The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales

  • Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?
  • The Twelve Dancing Princesses
  • Current Events This Week: January 2023
  • African Americans by the Numbers
  • Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
  • The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales