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Christina Rossetti Quotes: 10

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.
Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.
For there is no friend like a sisterIn 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
Goblin Market and Other Poems
Ah me, but where are now the songs I sangWhen life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?
Poems of Christina Rossetti
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.
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.
The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti
Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.
I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?
The Complete Poems
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.
For if the darkness and corruption leaveA vestige of the thoughts that once I had,Better by far you should forget and smileThan that you should remember and be sad.
Poems of Christina Rossetti