Christina Rossetti Quotes About Winter

Quotes about: Winter

• Gone were but the Winter,
  Come were but the Spring,
  I would go to a covert
  Where the birds sing;
  
  Where in the whitethorn
  Singeth a thrush,
  And a robin sings
  In the holly-bush.
  
  Full of fresh scents
  Are the budding boughs
  Arching high over
  A cool green house:
  
  Full of sweet scents,
  And whispering air
  Which sayeth softly:
  We spread no snare;
  
  Here dwell in safety,
  Here dwell alone,
  With a clear stream
  And a mossy stone.
  
  Here the sun shineth
  Most shadily;
  Here is heard an echo
  Of the far sea,
  Though far off it be.

  Christina Rossetti

  Sweet, Spring, Winter

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.11, OUP Oxford

• 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.

  Christina Rossetti

  Nature, Travel, Winter

  'Mid-Winter'

• I wish I could remember the first day,
  First hour, first moment of your meeting me;
  If bright or dim the season it might be;
  Summer or winter for aught I can say.
  So, unrecorded did it slip away,
  So blind was i to see and to forsee,
  So dull to mark the budding of my tree
  That would not blossom, yet, for many a May.

  Christina Rossetti

  Summer, Famous Love, Winter

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Selected Poems: Rossetti: Rossetti”, p.192, Penguin UK

• Spring's an expansive time: yet I don't trust
  March with its peck of dust,
  Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers,
  Nor even May, whose flowers
  One frost may wither thro' the sunless hours.

  Christina Rossetti

  Spring, Flower, Winter

  Christina Rossetti (2012). “Goblin Market and Other Poems”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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