Christina Rossetti
Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.Collection: Valentines
Obedience is the fruit of faith.Collection: Faith
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.Collection: Work
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.Collection: Sad
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.Collection: Beauty
My heart is like a singing bird.Collection: Romantic
Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.Collection: Hope
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.Collection: Family
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.
I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on.
I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.
And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.
Silence is more musical than any song.
What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.Collection: Spring
What is the beginning? Love. What is the course. Love still. What the goal. The goal is love.Collection: Love
Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.Collection: Holy Ground
The downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back.Collection: Path
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.Collection: Happiness
Flowers preach to us if we will hear.Collection: Flower
Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you planned: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterward remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.Collection: Grieving
Open wide the windows of our spirits and fill us full of light; open wide the door of our hearts, that we may receive and entertain Thee with all our powers of adoration.Collection: Heart
Good deeds are many, but good lives are few.Collection: Good Life
Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.Collection: Land
Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank.Collection: God
One day in the country Is worth a month in townCollection: Inspirational
Spring is when life's alive in everything.Collection: Spring
The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.Collection: Paradise
I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?Collection: Wall
Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth.Collection: Hope
To me it seems our duty towards the Bible is to obey its teaching in faith. I do not think we are bound to understand or account for all its utterances.Collection: Faith
O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.Collection: Sea
Where are the songs I used to know, Where are the notes I used to sing? I have forgotten everything I used to know so long ago. ("The Key-Note")Collection: Song
I believe because I am told to believe ... My faith is faith; it is not evolved out of argumentation, nor does it seek the aid of that.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Time
Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens A rose today. But you will ask in vain Tomorrow what it is; and yesterday It was the dust, the sunshine, and the rains.Collection: Rain
Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost, Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, tho' I be the feeblest of God's host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook. Yet while I love my God the most, I deem That I can never love you overmuch; I love Him more, so let me love you too; Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such I cannot love you if I love not Him. I cannot love Him if I love not you.Collection: Love You
My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me. Raise me a daïs of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.Collection: Life
The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bowerCollection: Garden
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. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply I may forget.Collection: Dream