Quotes by Christina Rossetti

“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.”

“My heart is like a singing birdWhose nest is in a water'd shoot;My heart is like an apple-treeWhose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.”

“The birthday of my lifeIs come, my love is come to me.”

“When I am dead, my dearest,Sing no sad songs for me;Plant thou no roses at my head,Nor shady cypress tree:Be the green grass above meWith showers and dewdrops wet;And if thou wilt, remember,And if ...”

“Remember me when I am gone away,Gone far away into the silent land.”

“Better by far you should forget and smileThan that you should remember and be sad.”

“For there is no friend like a sisterIn 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.”

“Oh roses for the flush of youth,And laurel for the perfect prime;But pluck an ivy branch for meGrown old before my time.”

“In the bleak mid-winterFrosty wind made moan,Earth stood hard as iron,Water like a stone;Snow had fallen, snow on snow,Snow on snow,In the bleak mid-winterLong ago.”

“Who has seen the wind?Neither you nor I:But when the trees bow down their headsThe wind is passing by.”

“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.”

“Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth,Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth,Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white,Love is like a lovely rose, the world’s delight.Harebells...”

“All earth’s full rivers can not fillThe sea that drinking thirsteth still.”

“One day in the countryIs worth a month in town.”

“Silence more musical than any song.”

“Oh Lord, make thy law, I entreat thee, our delight.”