Christina G. Rossetti Quotations
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RosesChristina G. Rossetti, Consider the Lilies of the Field. I watched a rose-bud very long Brought on by dew and sun and shower, Waiting to see the perfect flower:
Larks
Christina G. Rossetti, Bird Raptures. O happy skylark springing Up to the broad, blue sky, Too fearless in thy winging, Too gladsome in thy singing,
Swallows
Christina G. Rossetti, Songs in a Cornfield, Stanza 7. The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your lordship. William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens (date ...
Spring
Christina G. Rossetti, The First Spring Day, Stanza 1. There is no time like Spring, When life's alive in everything, Before new nestlings sing, Before cleft swallows speed ...
Heart
Christina G. Rossetti, A Birthday. Malebranche dirait qu'il n'y a plus une ame: Nous pensons humblement qu'il reste encor des coeurs. Malebranche would have it that not a ...
Summer
Christina G. Rossetti, Summer. Heat, ma'am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
Perseverance
Plutarch, Of the Training of Children. We shall escape the uphill by never turning back. Christina G. Rossetti, Amor Mundi. External links
Paradise
Christina G. Rossetti, Saints and Angels, Stanza 10. There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load.
Poppies
Christina G. Rossetti, "Consider the Lilies of the Field." Gentle sleep! Scatter thy drowsiest poppies from above; And in new dreams not soon to vanish, bless
Day
Christina G. Rossetti, Twilight, Night, I, Stanza 1. Die schonen Tage in Aranjuez Sind nun zu Ende. The lovely days in Aranjuez are now at an end.
Travel
Christina G. Rossetti, Up-Hill. Zahlt der Pilger Meilen, Wenn er zum fernen Gnadenbilde wallt? Does the pilgrim count the miles When he travels to some distant shrine?
Sympathy
Christina G. Rossetti, Somewhere or Other. If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. Friedrich Schiller, Votive Tablets, Value and Worth.
Doves
Christina G. Rossetti, From House to Home, in Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), Stanza 7. With his mouth full of news Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young.
Oceans
Christina G. Rossetti, By the Sea, Stanza 1. Streak of silver sea. Lord Salisbury. Quoted from Col. Chesney, who also quoted it. Used by Gladstone, writing of the English ...
Winter
Christina G. Rossetti, Spring signals to Winter. In winter, when the dismal rain Came down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote
Memory
Christina G. Rossetti, Song, She Sat and Sang Always. Though varying wishes, hopes, and fears, Fever'd the progress of these years, Yet now, days, weeks, and months but seem
Preaching
Christina G. Rossetti, Consider the Lilies of the Field. I have taught you, my dear flock, for above thirty years how to live; and I will show you in a very short time how ...
Death
Christina G. Rossetti, Song. Je m'em vais voir le soleil pour la derniere fois. I go to see the sun for the last time. Rousseau's last words. Death is the privilege of human ...
Age
Christina G. Rossetti, Song, Stanza 1. I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in the eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm growing deeper in my sighs;
Goodness
Christina G. Rossetti, Jessie Cameron, Stanza 3. Esse quam videri bonus malebat. He preferred to be good, rather than to seem so. Sallust, Catlina, LIV.
Christmas
Love was born at Christmas, Stars and angels gave the sign. ~ Christina Rossetti ... Christina G. Rossetti; Christmas that magic blanket that wraps itself about us ...
Life
Christina G. Rossetti, Saints and Angels. Life's but a span, or a tale, or a word, That in a trice, or suddaine, is rehearsed. The Roxburghe Ballads, A Friend's Advice ...
Hope
Christina G. Rossetti, Dead Hope. Who in Life's battle firm doth stand Shall bear Hope's tender blossoms Into the Silent Land. J. G. Van Salis, Song of the Silent Land.
Silence
Christina G. Rossetti, Sonnet, Rest. Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur. The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. Quintus Curtius Rufus, De Rebus Gestis ...
List of people by name, Q-R
Rossetti, Christina; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel; Rossi, Vasco; Rossini, Gioachino; Rostand, Edmond; Rostand, Jean; Rosten, Leo; Rotaru, Sofia; Roth, Cecil; Roth, David Lee
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