| 20 Famous Quotes by Christina G. Rossetti
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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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“One by one the flowers close,
Lily and dewy rose
Shutting their tender petals from the moon.”
Evening Quotes Source: Twilight Calm
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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 Source: Somewhere or Other
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“Before green apples blush,
Before green nuts embrown,
Why, one day in the country
Is worth a month in town.”
Summer Quotes Source: Summer
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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 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 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 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 Source: Gone Forever (st. 2)
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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.”
Nightingales Quotes 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 Source: Twilight Calm (st. 7)
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“The angel of spring, the mellow-throated nightingale.”
Nightingales Quotes Source: Twilight Calm (st. 7)
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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 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 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 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 Source: "Consider the Lilies of the Field" (l. 13)
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“We shall escape the uphill by never turning back.”
Perseverance Quotes Source: Amor Mundi
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“Consider
The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:--
We are as they;
Like them we fade away
As doth a leaf.”
Mortality Quotes Source: Consider
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“Spring bursts to-day,
For Christ is risen and all the earth's at play.”
Easter Quotes Source: Easter Carol
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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 Source: The Honeysuckle
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“The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear,
And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.”
Paradise Quotes Source: Saints and Angels (st. 10)
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Christina G. Rossetti Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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