Quotes by Rossetti, Christina




Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 December 29, 1894) was an English poet and the sister of artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti as well as William Michael Rossetti and Maria Francesca Rossetti. Their father, Gabriele Rossetti, was a political asylum seeker from Naples, and their mother, Frances Polidori, was the sister of Lord Byron's friend and physician, John William Polidori..

"And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying."

Rossetti, Christina on death
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"Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget."

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"Obedience is the fruit of faith."

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"I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on..."

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"I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, Where? What? and turn away."

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"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."

Rossetti, Christina on family
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"Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth..."

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"Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine."

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"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."

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"Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by."

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"For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you."

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