I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you’d say, Where? What? and turn away.
—Christina Rossetti
Topics: Facts
Come to me in the silence of the night,
Come to me in the speaking silence of a dream.
Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright as sunlight on a stream.
Come back in tears,
O memory, hope, love of finished years.
—Christina Rossetti
Topics: Memory
Obedience is the fruit of faith.
—Christina Rossetti
Topics: Dedication
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
Topics: Family, Weather, Friendship
For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.
—Christina Rossetti
Topics: World
Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes; work never begun.
—Christina Rossetti
Topics: Secrets of Success
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.
—Christina Rossetti
Topics: Weather
Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.
—Christina Rossetti
Topics: Death, Dying
And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.
—Christina Rossetti
Topics: Death, Dying
Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, nd no one to thank.
—Christina Rossetti
Topics: God
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
Topics: Snow
Love came down at Christmas;
Love all lovely, love divine;
Love was born at Christmas,
Stars and angels gave the sign.
—Christina Rossetti
Topics: Christmas
Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth…
—Christina Rossetti
Topics: Hope
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
Topics: Religion
A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.
—Christina Rossetti
Topics: Self-Discovery
Spring is when life’s alive in everything.
—Christina Rossetti
Topics: Seasons
Love is like a rose,
the joy of all the earth…
Love is like a lovely rose,
the world’s delight.
—Christina Rossetti
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
Topics: Heart
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.
—Christina Rossetti
For I am bound with fleshly bands,
Joy, beauty, lie beyond my scope;
I strain my heart, I stretch my hands,
And catch at hope.
—Christina Rossetti
Topics: Hope
Better by far you should forget and smile, than that you should remember and be sad.
—Christina Rossetti
Topics: Regret, Reflection, Smile, Past
Christmas hath a beauty … lovelier than the world can show.
—Christina Rossetti
Topics: Christmas
Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.
—Christina Rossetti
Topics: Love
I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on…
—Christina Rossetti
Topics: Dreams
Silence is more musical than any song.
—Christina Rossetti
Topics: Silence, One liners
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