Song (Oh! roses for the flush of youth)

Song (Oh! roses for the flush of youth) Christina Rossetti 1 1849 February <artist/> <location/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>As with all of CR's poems published in <title level="per"> <hi rend="i">The Germ</hi> , this short piece appeared pseudonymously as the work of “Ellen Alleyn”. It was first reprinted in CR's <hi rend="i">Goblin Market and Other Poems</hi> (1862).

Textual History: Composition

February 1849

Textual History: Revision

In the manuscript of the poem (in the Bodleian library) the title is “A Song in a Song”, and it contains three stanzas prior to the two that comprise the printed version.

Production History

Reception

Iconographic

Printing History

First printed in The Germ 2, page 64.

Pictorial

Historical

Literary

Translation

Autobiographical

Bibliographic

Germ text Germ text The Germ (British Library Copy, second issue) William Michael Rossetti 1850 January 31 0 The Germ (1901 Facsimile Reprint, issue 2) William Michael Rossetti 1901 0