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Album The Poems of Christina G. Rossetti

The Poems of Christina G. Rossetti by Christina Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

1906

Winter: My Secret by Christina Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti
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Title
The colon in the title seems to be used to equate or suggest a semblance between two things: the winter and the speaker’s privacy.

The tone is coy, playful and teasing. The speaker addresses an unknown listener, engaging in dialogue, but refusing to reveal what she has to tell, despite the...

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Winter: My Secret Annotated

I tell my secret? No indeed, not I;
Perhaps some day, who knows?
But not today; it froze, and blows and snows,
And you're too curious: fie!
You want to hear it? well:
Only, my secret's mine, and I won't tell.

Or, after all, perhaps there's none:
Suppose there is no secret after all,
But only just my fun.
Today's a nipping day, a biting day;
In which one wants a shawl,
A veil, a cloak, and other wraps:
I cannot ope to everyone who taps,
And let the draughts come whistling thro' my hall;
Come bounding and surrounding me,
Come buffeting, astounding me,
Nipping and clipping thro' my wraps and all.
I wear my mask for warmth: who ever shows
His nose to Russian snows
To be pecked at by every wind that blows?
You would not peck? I thank you for good will,
Believe, but leave the truth untested still.

Spring's an expansive time: yet I don't trust
March with its peck of dust,
Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers,
Nor even May, whose flowers
One frost may wither thro' the sunless hours.

Perhaps some languid summer day,
When drowsy birds sing less and less,
And golden fruit is ripening to excess,
If there's not too much sun nor too much cloud,
And the warm wind is neither still nor loud,
Perhaps my secret I may say,
Or you may guess.

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Winter: My Secret was written by Christina Rossetti.

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