Christina Rossetti quotes - page 2

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth. (Christina Rossetti)
Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you call'd them sweet? View quote
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We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots? View quote
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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. View quote
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I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all? View quote
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Obedience is the fruit of faith. View quote
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She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. View quote
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[Spring is] when life's alive in everything. View quote
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Promise me no promises, So will I not promise you: Keep we both our liberties, Never false and never true: Let us hold the die uncast, Free to come as free to go: For I cannot know your past, And of mine what can you know? View quote
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He feeds upon her face by day and night, And she with true kind eyes looks back on him, Fair as the moon and joyful as the light. View quote
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Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth. (Christina Rossetti)
I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away. View quote
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