Christina Rossetti citations

Christina Rossetti est l'une des plus importantes poètes anglaises. Elle excellait dans les œuvres de fantaisie, dans les poèmes pour enfants et dans la poésie religieuse. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. décembre 1830 – 29. décembre 1894
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Christina Rossetti: Citations en anglais

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

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

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

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.”

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.”

Mid-Winter http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blrossettichristmas.htm, st. 1 (1872).
Source: The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti

“Silence more musical than any song.”

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.”

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.”

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

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