Christina Rossetti Quotes - Page 3

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• Christmas hath a beauty ... lovelier than the world can show.

  Christina Rossetti

  Christmas, World, Shows

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.634, Delphi Classics

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• For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.

  Christina Rossetti

  Love, Men, World

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.227, OUP Oxford

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• Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white.

  Christina Rossetti

  White, Lilies

  Christina Rossetti (2014). “Rossetti: Poems”, p.124, Everyman's Library

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• When I am dead, my dearest,
  Sing no sad songs for me

  Christina Rossetti

  Song, Cypress Trees, Cypresses

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

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• Spring bursts today,
  For love is risen and all the earth's at play.

  Christina Rossetti

  Easter, Spring, Love Is

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• I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

  Christina Rossetti

  Eye, Might, Facts

  Christina Rossetti “Christina Rossetti”, Ardent Media

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• There is no time like Spring
  When life's alive in everything,
  Before new nestlings sing,
  Before cleft swallows speed their journey back
  Along the trackless track.

  Christina Rossetti

  Spring, Journey, Track

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

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• O Lord, who art our guide even unto death, grant us, I pray Thee, grace to follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest. In little daily duties to which Thou callest us, bow down our wills to simple obedience.

  Christina Rossetti

  Art, Simple, Grace

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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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• For I am bound with fleshly bands,
  Joy, beauty, lie beyond my scope;
  I strain my heart, I stretch my hands,
  And catch at hope.

  Christina Rossetti

  Hope, Lying, Heart

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.453, Delphi Classics

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• And all winds go sighing For sweet things dying.

  Christina Rossetti

  Death, Sweet, Wind

  "The Complete Works of Christina Rossetti".

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• Christmas hath a darkness;
  Brighter than the blazing noon;
  Christmas hath a chillness
  Warmer than the heat of June,
  Christmas hath a beauty
  Lovelier than the world can show:
  For Christmas bringeth Jesus,
  Brought for us so low

  Christina Rossetti

  Christmas, Jesus, June

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.634, Delphi Classics

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• Let bygones be bygones.

  Christina Rossetti

  Forgiveness, Bygones, Let Bygones Be Bygones

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.123, OUP Oxford

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• And may you happy live, And long us bless.

  Christina Rossetti

  Birthday, Long, May

  Christina Rossetti “Christina Rossetti”, Ardent Media

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• The rose saith in the dewy morn,
  I am most fair;
  Yet all my loveliness is born
  Upon a thorn.

  Christina Rossetti

  Rose, Born, Fairs

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

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• Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.

  Christina Rossetti

  Death, Dying, Green

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

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• Born in a stable,
  Cradled in a manger,
  In the world His hands have made,
  Born a stranger.

  Christina Rossetti

  Christmas, Hands, World

  Christina Rossetti, “Before The Paling Of The Stars”

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• And sometimes I remember days of old
  When fellowship seemed not so far to seek,
  And all the world and I seemed much less cold,
  And at the rainbow's foot lay surely gold,
  And hope felt strong, and life itself not weak.

  Christina Rossetti

  Strong, Feet, Rainbow

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.495, Delphi Classics

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• She cried, "Laura," up the garden, "Did you miss me? Come and kiss me. Never mind my bruises, Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices Squeezed from goblin fruits for you, Goblin pulp and goblin dew. Eat me, drink me, love me; Laura, make much of me; For your sake I have braved the glen And had to do with goblin merchant men.

  Christina Rossetti

  Kissing, Men, Garden

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Goblin Market - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham”, p.26, Read Books Ltd

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• Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

  Christina Rossetti

  Birthday, Love Is, Pomegranates

  'A Birthday'

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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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• The Bourne Underneath the growing grass, Underneath the living flowers, Deeper than the sound of showers: There we shall not count the hours By the shadows as they pass. Youth and health will be but vain, Beauty reckoned of no worth: There a very little girth Can hold round what once the earth Seemed too narrow to contain.

  Christina Rossetti

  Life, Flower, Shadow

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.185, Delphi Classics

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• It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.

  Christina Rossetti

  Summer, Race, Bird

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.258, Delphi Classics

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• What is green? The grass is green,
  With small flowers between.
  What is violet? Clouds are violet
  In the summer twilight.
  What is orange? Why, an orange,
  Just an orange!

  Christina Rossetti

  Summer, Flower, Twilight

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

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• To her whose heart is my heart's quiet home,
  To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee
  I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome.

  Christina Rossetti

  Mother, Home, Heart

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.416, Delphi Classics

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