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Christina Rossetti quotes: My heart is breaking for a little love

My heart is breaking for a little love

Christina Rossetti quotes: Silence is more musical than any song.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti quotes: O passing angel, speed me with a song, a melody of heaven to reach my heart and rouse me to the race and make me strong.

O passing angel, speed me with a song, a melody of heaven to reach my heart and rouse me to the race and make me strong.

Christina Rossetti quotes: Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

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

Christina Rossetti quotes: Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.

Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.

Christina Rossetti quotes: Christmas hath a beauty ... lovelier than the world can show.

Christmas hath a beauty ... lovelier than the world can show.

Christina Rossetti quotes: And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.

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

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

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

Christina Rossetti quotes: I believe because I am told to believe ... My faith is faith; it is not evolved out of argumentation, nor does it seek the aid of that.

I believe because I am told to believe ... My faith is faith; it is not evolved out of argumentation, nor does it seek the aid of that.

Christina Rossetti quotes: Born in a stable,Cradled in a manger,In the world His hands have made,Born a stranger.

Born in a stable,
Cradled in a manger,
In the world His hands have made,
Born a stranger.

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

Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.

Christina Rossetti quotes: We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?

We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?

Christina Rossetti quotes: Why one day in the country Is worth a month in town; Is worth a day and a year Of the dusty, musty, lag-last fashion That days drone elsewhere.

Why one day in the country Is worth a month in town; Is worth a day and a year Of the dusty, musty, lag-last fashion That days drone elsewhere.

Christina Rossetti quotes: I charge you at the Judgement make it plain,My love of you was life and not a breath.

I charge you at the Judgement make it plain,
My love of you was life and not a breath.

Christina Rossetti quotes: Spring is when life's alive in everything.

Spring is when life's alive in everything.

Christina Rossetti quotes: Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.

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

Christina Rossetti quotes: And may you happy live, And long us bless.

And may you happy live, And long us bless.

Christina Rossetti quotes: What is pink? A rose is pinkBy the fountain's brink.

What is pink? A rose is pink
By the fountain's brink.

Christina Rossetti quotes: The downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back ...

The downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back ...

Christina Rossetti quotes: Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.

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

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

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

Christina Rossetti quotes: Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white.

Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white.

Christina Rossetti quotes: I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on.

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

Christina Rossetti quotes: The rose saith in the dewy morn,I am most fair;Yet all my loveliness is bornUpon a thorn.

The rose saith in the dewy morn,
I am most fair;
Yet all my loveliness is born
Upon a thorn.

Christina Rossetti quotes: Where are the songs I used to know, Where are the notes I used to sing? I have forgotten everything I used to know so long ago. ("The Key-Note")

Where are the songs I used to know, Where are the notes I used to sing? I have forgotten everything I used to know so long ago. ("The Key-Note")

Christina Rossetti quotes: O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.

O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.

Christina Rossetti quotes: Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.

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

Christina Rossetti quotes: All things that pass Are wisdom's looking-glass.

All things that pass Are wisdom's looking-glass.

Christina Rossetti quotes: The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.

The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.

Christina Rossetti quotes: To her whose heart is my heart's quiet home,To my first Love, my Mother, on whose kneeI learnt love-lore that is not troublesome.

To her whose heart is my heart's quiet home,
To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee
I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome.

Christina Rossetti quotes: It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.

It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.

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

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

Christina Rossetti quotes: Beautiful, delightful, noble, memorable, as is the world, I yet am well content in my shady crevice.

Beautiful, delightful, noble, memorable, as is the world, I yet am well content in my shady crevice.

Christina Rossetti quotes: A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.

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

Christina Rossetti quotes: Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.

Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.

Christina Rossetti quotes: I'll love him til he loves me bestMe best of all, Maude Clare

I'll love him til he loves me best
Me best of all, Maude Clare

Christina Rossetti quotes: A pin has a head, but has no hair

A pin has a head, but has no hair

Christina Rossetti quotes: When I am dead, my dearest,Sing no sad songs for me

When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me

Christina Rossetti quotes: Flowers preach to us if we will hear.

Flowers preach to us if we will hear.

Christina Rossetti quotes: As a tree my sin standsTo darken all lands;Death is the fruit it bore.

As a tree my sin stands
To darken all lands;
Death is the fruit it bore.

Christina Rossetti quotes: Where innocent bright-eyes daisies are With blades of grass between, Each daisy stands up like a star Out of a sky of green.

Where innocent bright-eyes daisies are With blades of grass between, Each daisy stands up like a star Out of a sky of green.

Christina Rossetti quotes: Obedience is the fruit of faith.

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

Christina Rossetti quotes: Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief: We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.

Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:
We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.

Christina Rossetti quotes: For all night long I dreamed of you:I woke and prayed against my will, Then slept to dream of you again.

For all night long I dreamed of you:
I woke and prayed against my will, Then slept to dream of you again.

Christina Rossetti quotes: Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.

Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.

Christina Rossetti quotes: We must not look at goblin men

We must not look at goblin men

Christina Rossetti quotes: Good deeds are many, but good lives are few ...

Good deeds are many, but good lives are few ...

Christina Rossetti quotes: Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their head, The wind is passing by.

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their head, The wind is passing by.

Christina Rossetti quotes: The lilies say: Behold how wePreach without words of purity.

The lilies say: Behold how we
Preach without words of purity.

Christina Rossetti quotes: Ah me, but where are now the songs I sangWhen life was sweet because you call'd them sweet?

Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang
When life was sweet because you call'd them sweet?

Christina Rossetti quotes: Heaven is the presence of God.

Heaven is the presence of God.

Christina Rossetti quotes: Fallen from sonship, beggared of grace,Grant me. Father, a servant's place.

Fallen from sonship, beggared of grace,
Grant me. Father, a servant's place.

Christina Rossetti quotes: I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?

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

Christina Rossetti quotes: Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep.

Choose love not in the shallows
but in the deep.

Christina Rossetti quotes: For I am bound with fleshly bands,Joy, beauty, lie beyond my scope;I strain my heart, I stretch my hands,And catch at hope.

For I am bound with fleshly bands,
Joy, beauty, lie beyond my scope;
I strain my heart, I stretch my hands,
And catch at hope.

Christina Rossetti quotes: Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth.

Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth.

Christina Rossetti quotes: For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.

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

Christina Rossetti quotes: Spring bursts today, For love is risen and all earth's at play.

Spring bursts today, For love is risen and all earth's at play.

Christina Rossetti quotes: Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

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

Christina Rossetti quotes: Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.

Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.

Christina Rossetti quotes: Hope dead lives nevermore,No, not in heaven.

Hope dead lives nevermore,
No, not in heaven.

Christina Rossetti quotes: Rest, rest at the heart's core ... till joy shall overtake.

Rest, rest at the heart's core ... till joy shall overtake.

Christina Rossetti quotes: Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth ...

Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth ...

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

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

Christina Rossetti quotes: One day in the country Is worth a month in town

One day in the country
Is worth a month in town

Christina Rossetti quotes: My heart is like a singing bird.

My heart is like a singing bird.

Christina Rossetti quotes: Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience is the early blossom on the tree of faith.

Obedience is the fruit of faith;
patience is the early blossom on the tree of faith.

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

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

Christina Rossetti quotes: I have a room whereinto no one entersSave I myself alone:There sits a blessed memory on a throne,There my life centres.

I have a room whereinto no one enters
Save I myself alone:
There sits a blessed memory on a throne,
There my life centres.

Christina Rossetti quotes: All earth's full rivers can not fillThe sea that drinking thirsteth still.

All earth's full rivers can not fillThe sea that drinking thirsteth still.

Christina Rossetti quotes: When wombats do inspire/I strike my disused lyre

When wombats do inspire/I strike my disused lyre

Christina Rossetti quotes: The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower

The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower