Christina Rossetti Quotes

Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is famous for writing Goblin Market and "Remember." She also wrote the words of the Christmas carols "In the Bleak Midwinter," set to a tune by Gustav Holst, and "Love Came Down at Christmas."

✵ 5. December 1830 – 29. December 1894
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Christina Rossetti: 30 quotes11 likes

Famous Christina Rossetti Quotes

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

Christina Rossetti

Remember, l. 13-14.
Source: Pre-Raphaelite Poetry: An Anthology

Christina Rossetti Quotes about love

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

Christina Rossetti

A Birthday, st. 2.

Christina Rossetti Quotes

“One day in the country
Is worth a month in town.”

Christina Rossetti

Summer; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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

Christina Rossetti

Who Has Seen the Wind? http://www.repeatafterus.com/title.php?i=1191, st. 2 (1872).

“In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty 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-winter
Long ago.”

Christina Rossetti

Mid-Winter http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blrossettichristmas.htm, st. 1 (1872). <br class="br">Source: The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina 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.”

Christina Rossetti

Up-Hill http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/rossetti.uphill.html, st. 1 (1861).

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

Christina Rossetti

A Birthday http://www.poetry-online.org/rossetti_christina_a_birthday.htm, st. 1 (1861).

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

Christina Rossetti

Remember, l. 1-2 (1862).

“Silence more musical than any song.”

Christina Rossetti

Sonnet. Rest; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“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.”

Christina Rossetti

Sleeping at Last http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/crossetti/bl-crossetti-sleep.htm, st. 1 (1893) .

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

Christina Rossetti

By the Sea; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919); Old and New, Volume 5 (1872), p. 169.

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