Christina Rossetti: Likeness

Christina Rossetti was English poet. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

Christina Rossetti: 60 quotes11 likes

“For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands.”

Christina Rossetti book Goblin Market and Other Poems

Goblin Market, st. 28 (1862).
Source: Goblin Market and Other Poems

“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

“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).

“Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth,
Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth,
Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white,
Love is like a lovely rose, the world’s delight.
Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth,
But the rose with all its thorns excels them both.”

Christina Rossetti

Hope is like a Harebell; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).