Christina Rossetti Quotes
1830–1894 England
Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 – December 29, 1894) was an English poet and the sister of artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
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Also known as: Christina G. Rossetti, Christina Georgina Rossetti, Rossetti, Christina, Rossetti, Christina Georgina
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Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
All earth’s full rivers can not fill
The sea that drinking thirsteth still.
Cheek to cheek and breast to breast
Lock’d together in one nest.
Like two wands of ivory
Tipp’d with gold for awful kings.
Goblin Market (1862)
One day in the country
Is worth a month in town.
We shall escape the uphill by never turning back.
Silence more musical than any song.
The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear,
And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.
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.
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land.
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.
Hope dead lives nevermore,
No, not in heaven.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads
The wind is passing by.
One by one the flowers close,
Lily and dewy rose
Shutting their tender petals from the moon.
The birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
Twilight is not good for maidens.
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.
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.
Sleep that no pain shall wake,
Night that no morn shall break,
Till joy shall overtake
Her perfect peace.
Spring bursts to-day,
For Christ is risen and all the earth's at play.