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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

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Dependability Help Love Sisters

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

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Love

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

Christina Rossetti Depth Grief Poetry Sorrow Truth Youth

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.

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Art Change Hope Longing Love Past Was

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.

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Death Hope

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

Christina Rossetti Hymn Poetry

I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Poetry Self

He feeds upon her face by day and night,And she with true kind eyes looks back on him,Fair as the moon and joyful as the light:Not 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 dream.

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Christina Rossetti Gabriel Rossetti Lizzie Siddal Poetry Pre Raphaelite

Morning and eveningMaids heard the goblins cry:'Come buy our orchard fruits,Come buy, come buy

~ Christina Rossetti

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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 understandIt will be late to counsel then or pray.Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leaveA 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

Christina Rossetti Death Of A Loved One Grief Life And Death Love Memories Poetry Remember

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.

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Melancholy Sadness

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

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti God Spirit Thanksgiving

All others are outside myself;I lock my door and bar them outThe turmoil, tedium, gad-about.I lock my door upon myself,And bar them out; but who shall wallSelf from myself, most loathed of all?If I could once lay down myself,And start self-purged upon the raceThat all must run ! Death runs apace.

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Prison Self

Then a hundred sad voices lifted a wail,And a hundred glad voices piped on the gale:'Time is short, life is short,' they took up the tale: 'Life is sweet, love is sweet, use to-day while you may;Love is sweet, and to-morrow may fail; Love is sweet, use to-day.

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Life Love Poem Time

Give me the lowest place: not that I dareAsk for that lowest place, but Thou hast diedThat I might live and shareThy glory by Thy side.Give me the lowest place: of if for meThat lowest place too high, make one more lowWhere I may sit and seeMy God and love Thee so.

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti God Humility

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

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti God Gratitude Thankfulness

For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge, I live alone, I look to die alone: Yet sometimes, when a wind sighs through the sedge, Ghosts of my buried years, and friends come back, My heart goes sighing after swallows flown On sometime summer's unreturning track.

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Friendship Poetry Solitude

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

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Perseverance Self Discipline

A fool I was to sleep at noon, And wake when night is chilly Beneath the comfortless cold moon; A fool to pluck my rose too soon, A fool to snap my lily. My garden-plot I have not kept; Faded and all-forsaken,I weep as I have never wept: Oh it was summer when I slept, It's winter now I waken. Talk what you please of future spring And sun-warm'd sweet to-orrow: Stripp'd bare of hope and everything, No more to laugh, no more to sing, I sit alone with sorrow.

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Death Sorrow Spring Winter

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 furzeThat shakes in windy weatherAbove the rusy heather.

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Christina Rossetti Goblin Market Humor Poems

Who shall tell the lady's griefWhen her Cat was past relief?Who shall number the hot tearsShed o'er her, beloved for years?Who shall say the dark dismayWhich her dying caused that day?

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Cat Cats Death Death Of A Pet Pet Pets

And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Dying Wind

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 faceAnd not have taken his hand.Yet I have a gift you have not got,And seem not like to get:For all your clothes and wedding-ringI've little doubt you fret.My fair-haired son, my shame, my pride,Cling closer, closer yet:Your father would give lands for oneto wear his coronet

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Betrayal Christina Rossetti Cousin Kate

Yet if you should forget me for a whileAnd afterwards remember, do not grieve:For if the darkness and corruption leaveA vestige of thoughts that I once had,Better by far you should forget and smileThan that you should remember and be sad.

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Christina Rossetti Remember

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

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Getting Going

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

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Women S Movement

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

Christina Rossetti Beauty Truth Eyes

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

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Never Anything Left

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

Christina Rossetti Sister Weather Calm

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

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Love Mine Token

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Fruit Obedience

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

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Smile Better Remember

My heart is like a singing bird.

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Heart Bird Singing
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