Quotes by Christina Rossetti

About Christina Rossetti:

Christina Georgina Rossetti is famous for writing Goblin Market and Remember, and the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter.
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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

Good folk, I have no coin, To take were to purloin: I have no copper in my purse, I have no silver either, And all my gold is on the furze That shakes in windy weather Above the rusy heather.

Christina Rossetti

Evening by evening Among the Brookside rushes, Laura bow'd her head to hear, Lizzie veil'd her blushes: Crouching close together In the cooling weather, With clasping arms and cautioning lips, With tingling cheeks and fingertips. "lie close," Laura s...

Christina Rossetti

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

Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?

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In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

Christina Rossetti

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.

Christina Rossetti

Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.

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Obedience is the fruit of faith.

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Christina Rossetti

And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.

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I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on.

Christina Rossetti

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

Christina Rossetti

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

Christina Rossetti

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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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O cousin Kate, my love was true, Your love was writ in sand: If he had fooled not me but you, If you had stood where i stand, He'd not have won me with his love, Nor bought me with his land; I would have spit into his face And not have taken his hand...

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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.

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Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.

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Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.

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Author Bio

  • NameChristina Rossetti
  • DescriptionEnglish poet
  • AliasesChristina Georgina Rossetti
  • BornDecember 5, 1830
  • DiedDecember 29, 1894
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPoet; Author