Christina Georgina Rossetti was a noted Victorian poet. She wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children`s poems including `Goblin Market` but is probably best remembered as the writer of the words of the Christmas carol `In the Bleak Midwinter`.English poet; sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Publication of some of her poems in her brother William`s magazine the Germ was her only contribution to Pre-Raphaelite activities. She was a devout Anglican and lived the last 15 years of her life as a recluse in her home. Many of her poems are religious, some melancholy and death-obsessed, e.g., Uphill and When I Am Dead, My Dearest. Possessing a spontaneous lyrical gift, she had a firm command of traditional poetic forms. Much of her work shows a marked moral intelligence and independence of spirit, and she is recognized as an important Victorian-era poet. Her simple songs, especially in Sing-Song (1872), were favorites w