Jag älskade dig först, men därefter din kärlek
Outsoaring gruva, sjöng en sådan upphöjd sång
Som drunknade vänliga cooings min duva.
Som är skyldig den andra mest? min kärlek var lång,
Och din ett ögonblick tycktes vaxa mer stark;
Jag älskade och gissade på dig, tolkas du mig
Och älskade mig för vad kanske eller kanske inte -
Nej, mått och vikter gör oss både fel.
För sannerligen kärlek vet inte "min" eller "ditt;"
Med separat "I" och "du" fri kärlek har gjort,
För en är båda och båda är en kär:
Rik kärlek vet intet om "ditt som inte är min,"
Båda har styrkan och både dess längd,
Både av oss, av den kärlek som gör oss till en.

Christina Rossetti
Of all Victorian women poets, posterity has been kindest to Christina Rossetti. Her poetry has never disappeared from view, and her reputation, though it suffered a decline in the first half of the twentieth century, has always been preserved to some degree. Critical interest in Rossetti’s poetry swelled in the final decades of the twentieth century, a resurgence largely impelled by the emergence of feminist criticism; much of this commentary focuses on gender issues in her poetry and on Rossetti as a woman poet. In Rossetti’s lifetime opinion was divided over whether she or Elizabeth Barrett Browning was the greatest female poet of the era; in any case, after Browning’s death in 1861 readers and critics saw Rossetti as the older poet’s rightful successor. The two poets achieved different kinds of excellence, as is evident in Dante Gabriel Rossetti‘s comment on his sister, quoted by William Sharp in The Atlantic Monthly (June 1895): “She is the finest woman-poet since Mrs. Browning, by a long way; and in artless art, if not in intellectual impulse, is greatly Mrs. Browning’s superior.” Readers have generally considered Rossetti’s poetry less intellectual, less political, and less varied than Browning’s; conversely, they have acknowledged Rossetti as having the greater lyric gift, with her poetry displaying a perfection of diction, tone, and form under the guise of utter simplicity.
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