Christina Rossetti
Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live My very life again though cold in death; Come back to me in dreams, that I may give Pulse for pulse, breath for breath: Speak low, lean low, As long ago, my love, how long agoCollection: Dream
Why does the sea moan evermore? Shut out from heaven it makes its moan, It frets against the boundary shore; All earth's full rivers cannot fill The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.Collection: Drinking
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 shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams.Collection: Dream
All earth's full rivers can not fillThe sea that drinking thirsteth still.Collection: Drinking
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.Collection: Humble
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.Collection: Country
A pin has a head, but has no hairCollection: Hair
Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?Collection: Song
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.Collection: Nature
My heart is breaking for a little loveCollection: Heart
Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.Collection: Lilies
Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.Collection: Dream
Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.Collection: Journey
Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth.Collection: Memorable
It is not the deed we do Though the deed be never so fair, But the love that the dear Lord looketh for, Hidden with lovely care In the heart of the deed so fair.Collection: Heart
Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth,Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth,Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white,Love is like a lovely rose, the world's delight.Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth,But the rose with all its thorns excels them both.Collection: Sweet
Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.Collection: Hurt
Heaven is the presence of God.Collection: God
We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?Collection: Men
Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white.Collection: White
O passing angel, speed me with a song, a melody of heaven to reach my heart and rouse me to the race and make me strong.Collection: Inspirational
All things that pass Are wisdom's looking-glass.Collection: Glasses
For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.Collection: Love
Christmas hath a beauty ... lovelier than the world can show.Collection: Christmas
Where innocent bright-eyes daisies are With blades of grass between, Each daisy stands up like a star Out of a sky of green.Collection: Inspirational
Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.Collection: Christmas
Rest, rest at the heart's core . . . till joy shall overtake.Collection: Heart
And all winds go sighing For sweet things dying.Collection: Death
Let bygones be bygones.Collection: Forgiveness
Not as she is, but as she fills his dreamCollection: Dream
A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.Collection: Men
O Lord, who art our guide even unto death, grant us, I pray Thee, grace to follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest. In little daily duties to which Thou callest us, bow down our wills to simple obedience.Collection: Art
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.Collection: Family
And may you happy live, And long us bless.Collection: Birthday
Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.Collection: Death