Christina RossettiAh me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet? ✨ Christina Georgina Rossetti, Monna Innominata: A Sonnet Of Sonnets342Life
Christina RossettiTread softly! All the earth is holy ground. ✨ Christina Rossetti (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated), p.514, Delphi Classics342Reading
Christina RossettiBetter by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. ✨ Remember l. 13 (1862)321Sadness
Christina RossettiObserve this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens A rose today. But you will ask in vain Tomorrow what it is; and yesterday It was the dust, the sunshine, and the rains.322Humanity
Christina RossettiLove is like a rose, the joy of all the earth. ✨ Christina Rossetti (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated), p.303, Delphi Classics355Love
Christina RossettiAnd may you happy live, And long us bless. ✨ Christina Rossetti Christina Rossetti, Ardent Media367Love
Christina RossettiCan anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. ✨ Christina Georgina Rossetti, Maria Keaton (2004). Prose Works of Christina Rossetti, Thoemmes Pr… ▶301Sadness
Christina RossettiFor one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you. ✨ Christina Rossetti (2008). Poems and Prose, p.227, OUP Oxford312Love
Christina RossettiBe the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget. ✨ When I am dead, my dearest l. 1 (1862)291Death
Christina RossettiObedience is the fruit of faith. ✨ What Will People Say | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review by Nicholas Bell, September 9, 2017.379DeathHopeHumanity
Christina RossettiTo me it seems our duty towards the Bible is to obey its teaching in faith. I do not think we are bound to understand or account for all its utterances.357HopeThought
Christina RossettiShe 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. ✨ C… ▶346HopeTruth
Christina RossettiOh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time. ✨ 'Oh Roses for the Flush'281Time
Christina RossettiBecause the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me. ✨ 'A Birthday'293LifeLove
Christina RossettiAll things that pass Are wisdom's looking-glass. ✨ Christina Rossetti (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated), p.488, Delphi Classics261Philosophy
Christina RossettiNot as she is, but as she fills his dream ✨ Christina Rossetti (2008). Poems and Prose, p.71, OUP Oxford261Death
Christina RossettiO Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea. ✨ Christina Georgina Rossetti (1892). The Face of the Deep: A… ▶338Love
Christina RossettiHope is like a hairball trembling from its birth.251Hope
Christina RossettiWhat 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 … ▶263SadnessTruth
Christina RossettiLie 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 (… ▶308LifeLove
Christina RossettiYet come to me in dreams, that I may live My very life again though cold in death; Come back to me in dreams, that I may give Pulse for pulse, breath for breath: Speak low, lean l… ▶253DeathLifeLove
Christina RossettiSpring is when life's alive in everything. ✨ Christina Rossetti (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated), p.83, Delphi Classics266Life
Christina RossettiO passing angel, speed me with a song, a melody of heaven to reach my heart and rouse me to the race and make me strong. ✨ Christina Rossetti (2013). Delphi Complete Works o… ▶222Love
Christina RossettiShe cried, Laura, up the garden, Did you miss me? Come and kiss me. Never mind my bruises, Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices Squeezed from goblin fruits for you, Goblin pulp and gob… ▶289LoveReadingThought
Christina RossettiWe must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots? ✨ Christina Rossetti (2012). Goblin Market and Ot… ▶201Truth
Christina RossettiMy 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; My heart is like a rainbow shell That … ▶289LifeLove
Christina RossettiI believe because I am told to believe ... My faith is faith; it is not evolved out of argumentation, nor does it seek the aid of that. ✨ Christina Georgina Rossetti (1970).… ▶268Hope
Christina RossettiRemember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land. ✨ 'Remember'268Love
Christina RossettiMy heart is like a singing bird. ✨ A Birthday l. 1 (1862)2810Love
Christina RossettiWhere are the songs I used to know, Where are the notes I used to sing? I have forgotten everything I used to know so long ago. (The Key-Note) ✨ Christina Rossetti (2008). P… ▶2810Reading