Quotes by Christina Rossetti

Explore a curated collection of 25 quotes by Christina Rossetti. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.What are brief? today and tomorrow.What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.What ar — Christina Rossetti
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 sho — Christina Rossetti
He feeds upon her face by day and night,And she with true kind eyes looks back on him,Fair as the moon and joyful as the — Christina Rossetti
Promise me no promises, So will I not promise you: Keep we both our liberties, Never false and never true: Let us hold t — Christina Rossetti
Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, a — Christina Rossetti
Where there are no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank. — Christina Rossetti
All others are outside myself;I lock my door and bar them outThe turmoil, tedium, gad-about.I lock my door upon myself,A — Christina Rossetti
Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one thank. — Christina Rossetti
Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. — Christina Rossetti
A fool I was to sleep at noon, And wake when night is chilly Beneath the comfortless cold moon; A fool to pluck my rose — Christina Rossetti
Who shall tell the lady's griefWhen her Cat was past relief?Who shall number the hot tearsShed o'er her, beloved for yea — Christina Rossetti
And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying — Christina Rossetti
O cousin Kate, my love was true,Your love was writ in sand:If he had fooled not me but you,If you had stood where i stan — Christina Rossetti
Yet if you should forget me for a whileAnd afterwards remember, do not grieve:For if the darkness and corruption leaveA — Christina Rossetti
Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes work never begun. — Christina Rossetti
The sea hath no king but God alone. — Christina Rossetti
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. — Christina Rossetti
Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes work never begun. — Christina Rossetti
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they s — Christina Rossetti
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. — Christina Rossetti