Christina Rossetti Quotes

Then a hundred sad voices lifted a wail,And a hundred glad voices piped on the gale:'Time is short, ...

Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, b...

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

A fool I was to sleep at noon, And wake when night is chilly Beneath the comfortless cold moon; A f...

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.

All others are outside myself;I lock my door and bar them outThe turmoil, tedium, gad-about.I lock m...

Promise me no promises, So will I not promise you: Keep we both our liberties, Never false and never...

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up ...

Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.

The sea hath no king but God alone.

Yet if you should forget me for a whileAnd afterwards remember, do not grieve:For if the darkness an...

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

Where there are no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank.

Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes work never begun.

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.What are brief? today and tomorrow.What are frail? spring blosso...

O cousin Kate, my love was true,Your love was writ in sand:If he had fooled not me but you,If you ha...

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

He feeds upon her face by day and night,And she with true kind eyes looks back on him,Fair as the mo...

Who shall tell the lady's griefWhen her Cat was past relief?Who shall number the hot tearsShed o'er ...

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying

Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one thank.

Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, ...

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to ...

For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge, I live alone, I look to die alone: Yet sometimes, when a w...

I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of a...

Give me the lowest place: not that I dareAsk for that lowest place, but Thou hast diedThat I might l...

Morning and eveningMaids heard the goblins cry:'Come buy our orchard fruits,Come buy, come buy

For there is no friend like a sisterIn calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To f...

Evening by eveningAmong the Brookside rushes,Laura bow'd her head to hear,Lizzie veil'd her blushes:...

Good folk, I have no coin,To take were to purloin:I have no copper in my purse,I have no silver eith...

For if the darkness and corruption leaveA vestige of the thoughts that once I had,Better by far you ...

Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by...

Ah me, but where are now the songs I sangWhen life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had...