Christina Rossetti Quotes

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• Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

  Christina Rossetti

  Inspirational, Work, Women

  Christina Georgina Rossetti, Maria Keaton (2004). “Prose Works of Christina Rossetti”, Thoemmes Pr

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• Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep.

  Christina Rossetti

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• What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.

  Christina Rossetti

  Spring, Ocean, Sea

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.319, Delphi Classics

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• What is the beginning? Love. What is the course. Love still. What the goal. The goal is love.

  Christina Rossetti

  Love, Goal, Stills

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.721, Delphi Classics

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• Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you planned: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterward 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, Hands, Land

  "Remember" l. 13 (1862)

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• What can I give Him,
  Poor as I am?
  If I were a shepherd
  I would bring a lamb.
  If I were a Wise Man
  I would do my part.
  Yet what can I give Him?
  I give Him my heart.

  Christina Rossetti

  Christmas, Wise, Heart

  Christina Rossetti, Simon Humphries (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.211, Oxford University Press

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• Silence is more musical than any song.

  Christina Rossetti

  Music, Song, Silence

  "Rest" l. 10 (1862)

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• Open wide the windows of our spirits and fill us full of light; open wide the door of our hearts, that we may receive and entertain Thee with all our powers of adoration.

  Christina Rossetti

  Heart, Light, Doors

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• My life is like a faded leaf,
  My harvest dwindled to a husk:
  Truly my life is void and brief
  And tedious in the barren dusk;
  My life is like a frozen thing,
  No bud nor greenness can I see:
  Yet rise it shall - the sap of Spring;
  O Jesus, rise in me.

  Christina Rossetti

  Jesus, Spring, Life Is Like

  Christina Rossetti, C.H. Sisson (2014). “Selected Poems”, p.64, Routledge

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• Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

  Christina Rossetti

  Happiness, Smile, Sad

  "Remember" l. 13 (1862)

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• Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.

  Christina Rossetti

  Land, Gone Away, Remember

  'Remember'

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• Oh that it were with me
  As with the flower;
  Blooming on its own tree
  For butterfly and bee
  Its summer morns:
  That I might bloom mine hour
  A rose in spite of thorns.
  
  Oh that my work were done
  As birds' that soar
  Rejoicing in the sun:
  That when my time is run
  And daylight too,
  I so might rest once more
  Cool with refreshing dew.

  Christina Rossetti

  Summer, Running, Flower

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.96, Delphi Classics

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• Love loves for ever,
  And finds a sort of joy in pain,
  And gives with nought to take again,
  And loves too well to end in vain:
  Is the gain small then?
  Love laughs at "never",
  Outlives our life, exceeds the span
  Appointed to mere mortal man:
  All which love is and does and can
  Is all in all then.

  Christina Rossetti

  Pain, Love Is, Men

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.648, Delphi Classics

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• Flowers preach to us if we will hear.

  Christina Rossetti

  Flower, Ifs

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.26, Delphi Classics

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• My heart is like a singing bird.

  Christina Rossetti

  Memorable, Heart, Bird

  "A Birthday" l. 1 (1862)

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• Spring is when life's alive in everything.

  Christina Rossetti

  Spring, Alive, Spring Break

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.83, Delphi Classics

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• Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.

  Christina Rossetti

  Holy Ground, Earth, Holy

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.514, Delphi Classics

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• Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank.

  Christina Rossetti

  God, Faith, Grateful

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• I wonder if the sap is stirring yet,
  If wintry birds are dreaming of a mate,
  If frozen snowdrops feel as yet the sun
  And crocus fires are kindling one by one:
  Sing robin, sing:
  I still am sore in doubt concerning Spring.

  Christina Rossetti

  Dream, Spring, Fire

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.122, Delphi Classics

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• Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.

  Christina Rossetti

  Clouds, Air, Passing By

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.17, OUP Oxford

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• Not as she is, but as she fills his dream

  Christina Rossetti

  Dream

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.71, OUP Oxford

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• It is not the deed we do Though the deed be never so fair, But the love that the dear Lord looketh for, Hidden with lovely care In the heart of the deed so fair.

  Christina Rossetti

  Heart, Dear Lord, Lovely

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• Where innocent bright-eyes daisies are With blades of grass between, Each daisy stands up like a star Out of a sky of green.

  Christina Rossetti

  Inspirational, Nature, Stars

  Christina Georgina Rossetti, “Where Innocent Bright-Eyed Daisies Are”

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• A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.

  Christina Rossetti

  Men, Self, Surroundings

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.357, OUP Oxford

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• Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.

  Christina Rossetti

  Hurt, Butterfly, Animal

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.379, Delphi Classics

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