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• Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth.

  Christina Rossetti

  Hope, Birth, Trembling

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• To me it seems our duty towards the Bible is to obey its teaching in faith. I do not think we are bound to understand or account for all its utterances.

  Christina Rossetti

  Faith, Teaching, Thinking

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• O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.

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  Sea, Lord, Shallow

  Christina Georgina Rossetti (1892). “The Face of the Deep: A Devotional Commentary on the Apocalypse”

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• My heart is like a singing bird
  Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
  My heart is like an apple-tree
  Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.

  Christina Rossetti

  Heart, Apples, Water

  Christina Rossetti, “A Birthday”

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• She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

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  Beauty, Eye, Vanity

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.160, Delphi Classics

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• The lilies say: Behold how we
  Preach without words of purity.

  Christina Rossetti

  Lilies, Purity, Preaching

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.41, OUP Oxford

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• Where are the songs I used to know, Where are the notes I used to sing? I have forgotten everything I used to know so long ago. ("The Key-Note")

  Christina Rossetti

  Song, Keys, Long Ago

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.215, OUP Oxford

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• I believe because I am told to believe ... My faith is faith; it is not evolved out of argumentation, nor does it seek the aid of that.

  Christina Rossetti

  Faith, Believe, Doe

  Christina Georgina Rossetti (1970). “The poetical works: With memoir and notes &c”

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• As a tree my sin stands
  To darken all lands;
  Death is the fruit it bore.

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  Land, Tree, Fruit

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.204, Delphi Classics

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• Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.

  Christina Rossetti

  Time, Ivy, Perfect

  'Oh Roses for the Flush'

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• I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?

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  Wall, Doors, Self

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.277, Delphi Classics

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• Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens A rose today. But you will ask in vain Tomorrow what it is; and yesterday It was the dust, the sunshine, and the rains.

  Christina Rossetti

  Rain, Flower, Sunshine

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• Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost, Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, tho' I be the feeblest of God's host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook. Yet while I love my God the most, I deem That I can never love you overmuch; I love Him more, so let me love you too; Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such I cannot love you if I love not Him. I cannot love Him if I love not you.

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  Love You, I Love Him, Love Is

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.448, Delphi Classics

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• Yet if you should forget me for a while
  And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
  For if the darkness and corruption leave
  A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
  Better by far you should forget and smile
  Than that you should remember and be sad.

  Christina Rossetti

  Grieving, Mourning, Darkness

  "Remember" l. 13 (1862)

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• My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me. Raise me a daïs of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

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  Life, Work, Eye

  Christina Georgina Rossetti, “A Birthday”

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• The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower

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  Garden, Cities, House

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.338, Delphi Classics

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• When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet: And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply I may forget.

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  Dream, Song, Pain

  "When I am dead, my dearest" l. 1 (1862)

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• I wish I could remember the first day,
  First hour, first moment of your meeting me;
  If bright or dim the season it might be;
  Summer or winter for aught I can say.
  So, unrecorded did it slip away,
  So blind was i to see and to forsee,
  So dull to mark the budding of my tree
  That would not blossom, yet, for many a May.

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  Summer, Famous Love, Winter

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Selected Poems: Rossetti: Rossetti”, p.192, Penguin UK

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• Hope dead lives nevermore,
  No, not in heaven.

  Christina Rossetti

  Hope, Heaven, Nevermore

  Christina Rossetti (2014). “Selected Poems”, p.83, Routledge

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• Why does the sea moan evermore? Shut out from heaven it makes its moan, It frets against the boundary shore; All earth's full rivers cannot fill The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.

  Christina Rossetti

  Drinking, Ocean, Sea

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.92, OUP Oxford

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• Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live My very life again though cold in death; Come back to me in dreams, that I may give Pulse for pulse, breath for breath: Speak low, lean low, As long ago, my love, how long ago

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  Dream, Long Ago, Giving

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.47, OUP Oxford

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• Fair as the moon and joyful as the light; Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams.

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  Dream, Moon, Light

  Christina Rossetti, “In An Artist's Studio”

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• All earth's full rivers can not fillThe sea that drinking thirsteth still.

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  Drinking, Sea, Rivers

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.1293, Delphi Classics

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• What is pink? A rose is pink
  By the fountain's brink.

  Christina Rossetti

  Rose, Fountain

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.202, OUP Oxford

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• Gone were but the Winter,
  Come were but the Spring,
  I would go to a covert
  Where the birds sing;
  
  Where in the whitethorn
  Singeth a thrush,
  And a robin sings
  In the holly-bush.
  
  Full of fresh scents
  Are the budding boughs
  Arching high over
  A cool green house:
  
  Full of sweet scents,
  And whispering air
  Which sayeth softly:
  We spread no snare;
  
  Here dwell in safety,
  Here dwell alone,
  With a clear stream
  And a mossy stone.
  
  Here the sun shineth
  Most shadily;
  Here is heard an echo
  Of the far sea,
  Though far off it be.

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  Sweet, Spring, Winter

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.11, OUP Oxford

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