Poems by D. G. Rossetti was the first anthology of poems published by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, and was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement,...

 in 1870. It includes Sister Helen, Jenny and Eden Bower and some of the sonnet sequence, The House of Life.

Following the death of his wife, Elizabeth Siddal

Elizabeth Siddal

Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal was an English artists' model, poet and artist who was painted and drawn extensively by artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including Walter Deverell, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and most of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's early paintings of women.-Early...

, Rossetti had interred most of his poetry with her body in Highgate Cemetery

Highgate Cemetery

Highgate Cemetery is a cemetery located in north London, England. It is designated Grade I on the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England. It is divided into two parts, named the East and West cemetery....

. Rossetti's friends later convinced him to exhume the poems which he did, publishing many in Poems by D. G. Rossetti and the remainder in Ballads and Sonnets in 1881.