“A Helpmeet For Him”
Christina Rossetti * Track #202 On The Poems of Christina G. Rossetti
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- #51The Three Enemies
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- #69A Portrait
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- #70Dream-Love
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- #72Songs in a Cornfield
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- #73A Year’s Windfalls
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- #74The Queen of Hearts
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- #75One Day
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- #76A Bird’s-Eye View
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- #77“Thy Brother’s Blood Crieth”
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- #78“To-day for Me”
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- #79On the Wing
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- #80Consider
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- #81Beauty is Vain
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- #82Maggie a Lady
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- #83What would I give?
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- #84The Bourne
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- #85Summer
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- #86Autumn
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- #87The Ghost’s Petition
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- #88Memory
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- #89A Royal Princess
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- #90Shall I Forget?
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- #91Vanity of Vanities
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- #92L. E. L.
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- #93Life and Death
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- #94Bird or Beast?
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- #95Eve
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- #96Grown and Flown
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- #97A Farm Walk
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- #98Somewhere or Other
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- #99A Chill
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- #100Child’s Talk in April
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- #101Gone for Ever
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- #102Under the Rose
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- #103Song V
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- #104By the Sea
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- #105Days of Vanity
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- #106Enrica, 1865
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- #107Once for All
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- #108Autumn Violets
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- #109“They Desire a Better Country”
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- #110A Green Cornfield
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- #111A Bride Song
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- #112The Lowest Room
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- #113Dead Hope
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- #114A Daughter of Eve
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- #115Venus’ Looking-Glass
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- #116Love lies Bleeding
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- #117Bird Raptures
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- #118My Friend
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- #119Twilight Night
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- #120A Bird Song
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- #121A Smile And A Sigh
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- #122A Christmas Carol
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- #123By The Waters of Babylon
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- #124Paradise
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- #125“I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes Unto The Hills”
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- #126Saints And Angels
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- #127“When My Heart is Vexed, I Will Complain”
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- #128After Communion
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- #129A Rose Plant in Jericho
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- #130Who Shall Deliver Me?
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- #131Despised And Rejected
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- #132Long Barren
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- #133If Only
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- #134Dost Thou Not Care?
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- #135Weary in Well-Doing
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- #137After This The Judgment
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- #138Good Friday
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- #139The Lowest Place
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- #140A Pageant And Other Poems
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- #141The Key-Note
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- #142The Months: A Pageant
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- #143Pastime
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- #144“Italia, Io Ti Saluto!”
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- #145Mirrors of Life And Death
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- #146A Ballad of Boding
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- #147Yet A Little While
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- #148He And She
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- #149Monna Innominata
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- #150“Luscious And Sorrowful”
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- #151De Profundis
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- #152Tempus Fugit
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- #157Till To-Morrow
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- #161A Life’s Parallels
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- #162At Last
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- #163Golden Silences
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- #164In The Willow Shade
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- #165Fluttered Wings
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- #166A Fisher-Wife
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- #167What’s in A Name?
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- #168Mariana
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- #169Memento Mori
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- #170“One Foot On Sea,And One On Shore”
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- #171Buds And Babies
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- #175“Summer is Ended”
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- #176Passing And Glassing
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- #177“I Will Arise”
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- #178A Prodigal Son
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- #179Soeur Louise De La Misericorde
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- #180An “Immurata” Sister
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- #182The Thread of Life
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- #183An Old-World Thicket
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- #184“All Thy Works Praise Thee,O Lord”
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- #185Later Life: A Double Sonnet Of Sonnets
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- #186“For Thine Own Sake,O My God”
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- #187Until The Day Break
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- #188“Of Him That Was Ready To Perish”
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- #189“Behold The Man!”
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- #190The Descent From The Cross
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- #191“It is Finished”
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- #192An Easter Carol
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- #193“Behold A Shaking”
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- #194All Saints
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- #195“Take Care of Him”
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- #196A Martyr
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- #197Why?
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- #198“Love is Strong As Death”
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- #199Birchington Churchyard
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- #200One Sea-Side Grave
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- #201Brother Bruin
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- #202“A Helpmeet For Him”
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- #203A Song of Flight
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- #204A Wintry Sonnet
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- #205Resurgam
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- #206To-Day’s Burden
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- #207“There is A Budding Morrow in Midnight.”
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- #208Exultate Deo.
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- #209A Hope Carol
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- #210Christmas Carols
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- #211A Candlemas Dialogue
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- #212A Song for All Maries
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- #213Patience of Hope
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- #214From The Antique
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- #215Song [When I am dead, my dearest]
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- #216Cobwebs
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"A Helpmeet For Him" by Christina Rossetti
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This is a complex poem that, to be fully understood, needs explanation of Rossetti’s contradictory views on gender and womanhood.
When a teenager Rossetti veered towards feminism, and toyed with the idea of supporting women’s votes and even women serving as Members of Parliament.
Irrespective of t...
“A Helpmeet For Him” Annotated
Woman was made for man's delight,--
Charm, O woman! Be not afraid!
His shadow by day, his moon by night,
Woman was made.
Her strength with weakness is overlaid;
Meek compliances veil her might;
Him she stays, by whom she is stayed.
World-wide champion of truth and right,
Hope in gloom, and in danger aid,
Tender and faithful, ruddy and white,
Woman was made.