Christina Rossetti Quotes

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When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.

Christina Rossetti
She cried, "Laura," up the garden, "Did you miss me? Come and kiss me. Never mind my bruises, Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices Squeezed from goblin fruits for you, Goblin pulp and goblin dew. Eat me, drink me, love me; Laura, make much of me; For your sake I have braved the glen And had to do with goblin merchant men.

Christina Rossetti
Many thrive on frugal fare
Who would perish of excess.

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One day in the country
Is worth a month in town.

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Sleep that no pain shall wake,
Night that no morn shall break.

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Come to me in the silence of the night;
Come in the speaking silence of a dream.

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Christmas hath a darkness;
Brighter than the blazing noon;
Christmas hath a chillness
Warmer than the heat of June,
Christmas hath a beauty
Lovelier than the world can show:
For Christmas bringeth Jesus,
Brought for us so low

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

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Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land.

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I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?

Christina Rossetti