For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather. — Christina Rossetti Baby sister Copy Share Image
“All others are outside myself; I lock my door and bar them out The turmoil, tedium, gad-about. I lock my door upon… — Christina Rossetti Death Copy Share Image
To her whose heart is my heart's quiet home, To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee I learnt love-lore that… — Christina Rossetti First love Copy Share Image
Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet? — Christina Rossetti Life Copy Share Image
“Give me the lowest place: not that I dare Ask for that lowest place, but Thou hast died That I might live… — Christina Rossetti God Copy Share Image
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad. — Christina Rossetti Better Copy Share Image
The rose saith in the dewy morn, I am most fair; Yet all my loveliness is born Upon a thorn. — Christina Rossetti Born Copy Share Image
I have no wit, no words, no tears; My heart within me like a stone Is numb'd too much for hopes or… — Christina Rossetti Everlasting Copy Share Image
Rest, rest at the heart's core . . . till joy shall overtake. — Christina Rossetti Core Copy Share Image
“Good folk, I have no coin, To take were to purloin: I have no copper in my purse, I have no silver… — Christina Rossetti Christina-rossetti Copy Share Image
O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed… — Christina Rossetti Hail Copy Share Image
In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on… — Christina Rossetti Bleak Copy Share Image
“Promise me no promises, So will I not promise you: Keep we both our liberties, Never false and never true: Let us… — Christina Rossetti Freedom Copy Share Image
Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a… — Christina Rossetti Fade away Copy Share Image
I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away. — Christina Rossetti Blind Copy Share Image
Spring bursts today, For love is risen and all the earth's at play. — Christina Rossetti Earth Copy Share Image
O passing angel, speed me with a song, a melody of heaven to reach my heart and rouse me to the race… — Christina Rossetti Angel Copy Share Image
“A fool I was to sleep at noon, And wake when night is chilly Beneath the comfortless cold moon; A fool to… — Christina Rossetti Death Copy Share Image
Christmas hath a darkness; Brighter than the blazing noon; Christmas hath a chillness Warmer than the heat of June, Christmas hath a… — Christina Rossetti Blazing Copy Share Image
“O cousin Kate, my love was true, Your love was writ in sand: If he had fooled not me but you, If… — Christina Rossetti Betrayal Copy Share Image
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me — Christina Rossetti Cypress trees Copy Share Image
