ROSSETTI'S BEST

• "Jenny"
• "Sister Helen"
• "Burden of Nineveh"
• "Blessed Damozel"
• "The Woodspurge"

 

BEST SONNET

• "Sleepless Dreams"
• "Willowwood I"
• "Lost Days"
• "Lost on Both Sides"
• "Newborn Death I"
• "A Superscription"

 

BEST PAINTING/DRAWING

• "Wedding of St. George & Princess Sabra"
• "Beata Beatrix"
• "May Morris" (colored chalk)
• "Sancta Lilias"

 

BEST TITLE

• "The Blessed Damozel"
• "The Burden of Nineveh"

 

MOST HEARTBREAKING

• "Alas, So Long!"
• "Newborn Death II"

 

MOST TERRIFYING

• "Sister Helen"
• "Lost Days"
• "A Superscription"
• "A Last Confession"
• "Lost Days"
• "The Orchard-Pit"
• "the "Beryl-songs" from "Rose Mary" (kind of creepy if you read them too late at night, and in a funny voice -- BPN)

 

 

SEXIEST

• "Eden Bower"
• "Nuptial Sleep"
• "The Kiss"
• "First Fire"

 

BEST FRAGMENT

• "Fat is Beauty's Fate."

 



 

ROSSETTI'S WORST

WORST POEM (not including sonnets)

• "The Stream's Secret"
• "Love's Nocturn"
• "The Bride's Prelude"
• "My Sister's Sleep"
• "Troy-Town" ["Mine are apples meet for his mouth!"] (Oh, please. -- BPN)

 

WORST SONNET

• "Love's Fatality"
• "Genius in Beauty"
• "Ardour and Memory"
• all 3 of the "True Woman" sonnets
• "Death's Songsters"
• "On Certain Elizabethan Revivals" ["O ruff-embastioned, vast Elizabeth, / Bush to these bushel-bellied casks of wine, / Home-growth, 'tis true, but rank as turpentine..."](and besides, any sonnet with the word "rat-pit" in it gets my vote. -- BPN)
• "On the Site of a Mulberry Tree"

 

 

WORST PAINTING/DRAWING

• "Astarte Syriaca" (from the neck up -- BPN)
• "La Bella Mano"

 

WORST TITLE

• "The House of Life"
• "Love-Sweetness" (nine out of ten dentists recommend flossing after this sonnet -- BPN)
• "Love's Lovers"
• "Beauty and the Bird" (should probably also get a nod for worst sonnet -- BPN)

 

WORST RHYME

• "a bomb at / my wombat" (also wins my vote for "best rhyme" -- BPN)