20 Famous Quotes by Christina G. Rossetti
The sunrise wakes the lark to sing,
The moonrise wakes the nightingale.
Come, darkness, moonrise, everything
That is so silent, sweet, and pale:
Come, so ye wake the nightingale.
Nightingales
Quotes, by Christina G. Rossetti , Source: Bird Raptures
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Hark! that's the nightingale,
Telling the self-same tale
Her song told when this ancient earth was young:
So echoes answered when her song was sung
In the first wooded vale.
Nightingales
Quotes, by Christina G. Rossetti , Source: Twilight Calm (st. 7)
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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.
Sisters
Quotes, by Christina G. Rossetti
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Somewhere or other there must surely be
The face not seen, the voice not heard,
The heart that not yet--never yet--ah me!
Made answer to my word.
Sympathy
Quotes, by Christina G. Rossetti , Source: Somewhere or Other
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It's surely summer. for there's a swallow:
Come one swallow, his mate will follow,
The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.
Swallows
Quotes, by Christina G. Rossetti , Source: A Bird Song (st. 2)
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There goes the swallow,--
Could we but follow!
Hasty swallow, stay,
Point us out the way;
Look back swallow, turn back swallow, stop swallow.
Swallows
Quotes, by Christina G. Rossetti , Source: Songs in a Cornfield (st. 7)
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The sunrise wakes the lark to sing,
The moonrise wakes the nightingale.
Come, darkness, moonrise, everything
That is so silent, sweet, and pale:
Come, so ye wake the nightingale.
Larks
Quotes, by Christina G. Rossetti , Source: Bird Raptures
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O happy skylark springing
Up to the broad, blue sky,
Too fearless in thy winging,
Too gladsome in thy singing,
Thou also soon shalt lie
Where no sweet notes are ringing.
Larks
Quotes, by Christina G. Rossetti , Source: Gone Forever (st. 2)
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Wood-pigeons cooed there, stock-doves nestled there;
My trees were full on songs and flowers and fruit,
Their branches spread a city to the air.
Pigeons
Quotes, by Christina G. Rossetti , Source: From House to Home (st. 7)
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In the bleak midwinter
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 midwinter,
Long ago.
Winter
Quotes, by Christina G. Rossetti , Source: A Christmas Carol
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Let but my scarlet head appear
And I am held in scorn;
Yet juice of subtile virtue lies
Within my cup of curious dyes.
Poppies
Quotes, by Christina G. Rossetti , Source: "Consider the Lilies of the Field"
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The violets whisper from the shade
Which their own leaves have made:
Men scent our fragrance on the air,
Yet take no heed
Of humble lessons we would read.
Violets
Quotes, by Christina G. Rossetti , Source: "Consider the Lilies of the Field" (l. 13)
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I plucked a honeysuckle where
The hedge on high is quick with thorn,
And climbing for the prize, was torn,
And fouled my feet in quag-water;
And by the thorns and by the wind
The blossom that I took was thinn'd
And yet I found it sweet and fair.
Honeysuckles
Quotes, by Christina G. Rossetti , Source: The Honeysuckle
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