Sonnet · Poems About Mom
Sonnets Are Full of Love
by Christina Rossetti · 1881
1Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome
2Has many sonnets: so here now shall be
3One sonnet more, a love sonnet, from me
4To her whose heart is my heart's quiet home,
5To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee
6I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome;
7Whose service is my special dignity,
8And she my loadstar while I go and come.
9And so because you love me, and because
10I love you, Mother, I have woven a wreath
11Of rhymes wherewith to crown your honoured name:
12In you not fourscore years can dim the flame
13Of love, whose blessed glow transcends the laws
14Of time and change and mortal life and death.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- Sonnets Are Full of Love
- Poet
- Christina Rossetti
- Published
- 1881
- Length
- 14 lines
- Form
- Sonnet
- Themes
- Poems About Mom, Family, Love
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- Shape
- 14 lines · one 14-line stanza
- Line length
- Mostly 10-syllable lines (pentameter length).
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First published before 1929 and checked line by line against the cited copy. Full-text display is based on a United States term-expiry review; status can differ elsewhere.
- Author record
- Christina Rossetti1830–1894
- Source record
- Academy of American Poets (poets.org)Sonnets Are Full of Love; A Pageant and Other Poems (London: Macmillan, 1881)
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-10-29
- Publication record
- A Pageant and Other Poems (London: Macmillan, 1881)
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 c92e50835fb9d27a…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.