Christina Rossetti Quotes - Page 5

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• 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

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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.

  Christina Rossetti

  Humble, Men, Air

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.26, Delphi Classics

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• Why one day in the country Is worth a month in town; Is worth a day and a year Of the dusty, musty, lag-last fashion That days drone elsewhere.

  Christina Rossetti

  Country, Fashion, Years

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.186, Delphi Classics

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• 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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• Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?

  Christina Rossetti

  Song, Sweet

  Christina Georgina Rossetti, “Monna Innominata: A Sonnet Of Sonnets”

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• I watched a rose-bud very long
  Brought on by dew and sun and shower,
  Waiting to see the perfect flower:
  Then when I thought it should be strong
  It opened at the matin hour
  And fell at even-song.

  Christina Rossetti

  Song, Strong, Flower

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.1677, Delphi Classics

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