Christina Rossetti Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
'Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy

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

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

Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.

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

A pin has a head, but has no hair

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

Flowers preach to us if we will hear.

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

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

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

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

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

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

We must not look at goblin men

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

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

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

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

Heaven is the presence of God.

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

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

Choose love not in the shallows
but in the deep.

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.

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

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

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

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

Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.

Hope dead lives nevermore,
No, not in heaven.

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

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

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

One day in the country
Is worth a month in town

My heart is like a singing bird.

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

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

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

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

When wombats do inspire/I strike my disused lyre

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