All Quotes by Christina Rossetti
“What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.”
“Does the road wind up-hill all the way?From morn to night, my friend.”
“My heart is like a singing birdWhose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.”
“The birthday of my lifeIs come, my love is come to me.”
“When I am dead, my dearest,And if thou wilt, forget.”
“Remember me when I am gone away,Gone far away into the silent land.”
“Better by far you should forget and smileThan that you should remember and be sad.”
“For there is no friend like a sisterTo strengthen whilst one stands.”
“Oh roses for the flush of youth,Grown old before my time.”
“In the bleak mid-winterLong ago.”
“Who has seen the wind?The wind is passing by.”
“Sleeping at last, the trouble and tumult over,Sleeping at last.”
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“I have no heart? Perhaps I have not; / But then you're mad to take offense / That I don't give you what I have not got; / Use your own common sense.”
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“For if the darkness and corruption leave”
“I lock my door upon myself,”
“A fool I was to sleep at noon,”
“Promise me no promises,”
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“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.”
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“Morning and evening”
“What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.”
“Who shall tell the lady's grief”
“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.”
“For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge,”
“He feeds upon her face by day and night,”
“I weep as I have never wept:”
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“Obedience is the fruit of faith.”
“Then a hundred sad voices lifted a wail,”