A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his …

Christina Rossetti
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A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings. ✨ Christina Rossetti (2008). Poems and Prose, p.357, OUP Oxford
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For 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 Oxford
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Silence is more musical than any song. ✨ Rest l. 10 (1862)
Fair as the moon and joyful as the light; Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams. ✨ Christina Rossetti, I … ▶

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