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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• 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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• 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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• Silence is more musical than any song.

  Christina Rossetti

  Music, Song, Silence

  "Rest" l. 10 (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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Obedience is the fruit of faith;
  patience is the early blossom on the tree of faith.

  Christina Rossetti

  Tree, Fruit, Obedience

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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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• 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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• The downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back.

  Christina Rossetti

  Path, Easy, No Turning Back

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.260, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

  Christina Rossetti

  Family, Sister, Cheer

  1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Goblin Market'.

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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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• Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.

  Christina Rossetti

  Lilies, Fields, Mortality

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.266, 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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• 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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• My heart is like a singing bird.

  Christina Rossetti

  Memorable, Heart, Bird

  "A Birthday" l. 1 (1862)

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• Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth.

  Christina Rossetti

  Memorable, Love Is, Rose

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.303, Delphi Classics

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• Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth,Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth,Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white,Love is like a lovely rose, the world's delight.Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth,But the rose with all its thorns excels them both.

  Christina Rossetti

  Sweet, Love Is, White

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.303, Delphi Classics

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• Good deeds are many, but good lives are few.

  Christina Rossetti

  Good Life, Deeds, Good Deeds

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.266, OUP Oxford

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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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