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15 Christina Rossetti Quotes

Christina Rossetti offers gentle, consoling verses about journeys, memory and winter, perfect for a quiet reflective mood.

Christina Rossetti quotes

  1. Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.

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  2. 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.

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  3. The birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

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  4. When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget.

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  5. Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land.

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

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  7. 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.

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  8. Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.

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  9. In the bleak mid-winter 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 mid-winter Long ago.

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  10. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads The wind is passing by.

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  11. Sleeping at last, the trouble and tumult over, Sleeping at last, the struggle and horror past, Cold and white, out of sight of friend and of lover, Sleeping at last.

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  12. 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.

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  13. All earth's full rivers can not fill The sea that drinking thirsteth still.

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  14. One day in the country Is worth a month in town.

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  15. Silence more musical than any song.

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