Quotes from Christina Rossetti

I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on.

For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Heaven is the presence of God.

Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth.

Hope dead lives nevermore, No, not in heaven.

Fair as the moon and joyful as the light; Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams.

O passing angel, speed me with a song, a melody of heaven to reach my heart and rouse me to the race and make me strong.

One day in the country Is worth a month in town

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me

Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.

Spring is when life's alive in everything.

Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.

And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.

Good deeds are many, but good lives are few.

I have a room whereinto no one enters Save I myself alone: There sits a blessed memory on a throne, There my life centres.

There is no time like Spring When life's alive in everything, Before new nestlings sing, Before cleft swallows speed their journey back Along the trackless track.

Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.

Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.

It is not the deed we do Though the deed be never so fair, But the love that the dear Lord looketh for, Hidden with lovely care In the heart of the deed so fair.

Spring bursts today, For love is risen and all the earth's at play.

My heart is breaking for a little love