Christina Rossetti’s “To What Purpose Is This Waste?” from New Poems. London: Macmillan and Co, 1896. Published September 9, 2019 at 1440 × 1920 in Christina Rossetti’s “To What Purpose Is This Waste?” from New Poems. London: Macmillan and Co, 1896. Christina Rossetti’s “To What Purpose Is This Waste?” from New Poems. 1896. Christina Rossetti’s “To What Purpose Is This Waste?” from New Poems. London: Macmillan and Co, 1896. P. 64.