Christina Rossetti
Poet
Christina Rossetti
1830 - 1894Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is famous for writing "Goblin Market" and "Remember". She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in the British Isles: "In the Bleak Midwinter", later set to music by Gustav Holst and by Harold Darke, and "Love Came Down at Christmas", also set by Harold Darke and other composers.
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Read some more about her life and her poetry here, on Poetry Foundation.
Song List
This list is likely to be of songs that have been performed at Oxford International Song Festivals and Oxford Song events, and may not be comprehensive of this composer's compositions. This database is ever growing as a work in progress, with further songs regularly being added.
| A Green Cornfield (1923) | Michael Head |
| A Lament (1910) | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor |
| A Song of Flight (1895) Op. 31 no.2 | Edward Elgar |
| Echo Op. 54 no.4 | Ian Venables |
| Leaf from Leaf, Christ Knows | Judith Weir |
| My heart is like a singing bird (1874) | Hubert Parry |
| Oh, fair to see Op. 13b | Gerald Finzi |
| Oh, What Comes Over the Sea Op. 57 no.1 | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor |
| Rest | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Too late for love! Op. 57 no.6 | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor |
