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Christina Rossetti
16 quotes
“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.”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) first seen 1861 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Up-Hill, st. 1 (1861).
“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 (1830–1894) first seen 1861 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Birthday, st. 1 (1861).
“The birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) first seen 1862 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Song, st. 1 (1862).
“Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land.”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) first seen 1862 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remember, l. 1-2 (1862).
“Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1830–1894) first seen 1862 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Goblin Market, st. 28 (1862).
“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.”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) first seen 1862 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Song, st. 1 (1862).
“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.”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) first seen 1872 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mid-Winter, st. 1 (1872).
“Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads The wind is passing by.”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) first seen 1872 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Who Has Seen the Wind?, st. 2 (1872).
“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.”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) first seen 1893 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sleeping at Last, st. 1 (1893) .
“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.”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hope is like a Harebell; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“All earth’s full rivers can not fill The sea that drinking thirsteth still.”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) first seen 1872 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: By the Sea; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919); Old and New, Volume 5 (1872), p. 169.
“One day in the country Is worth a month in town.”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Summer; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Silence more musical than any song.”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sonnet. Rest; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Oh Lord, make thy law, I entreat thee, our delight.”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source