109+ Christina Rossetti Quotes On Friendship, Education And Death

Christina Rossetti was a British poet who wrote during the Victorian era. She wrote a variety of poems, including religious and devotional works, as well as poems about love, nature, and death. Her most famous works include Goblin Market, Remember, and In the Bleak Midwinter. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Christina Rossetti on friendship, love, life.

Top 10 Christina Rossetti Quotes

1. Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
2. Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
3. Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.
4. Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.
5. Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.
6. We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?
7. 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.
8. What can I give Him, Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd I would bring a lamb. If I were a Wise Man I would do my part. Yet what can I give Him? I give Him my heart.
9. Silence is more musical than any song.
10. 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.

Christina Rossetti Image Quotes

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. — Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Short Quotes

• Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.
• Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white.
• Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
• Obedience is the fruit of faith.
• Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.
• A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.
• Christmas hath a beauty ... lovelier than the world can show.
• The lilies say: Behold how we Preach without words of purity.
• I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on...
• Let bygones be bygones.

Christina Rossetti Quotes About Love

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. — Christina Rossetti

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather. — Christina Rossetti

Spring bursts today, For love is risen and all the earth's at play. — Christina Rossetti

My heart is breaking for a little love — Christina Rossetti

The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all. — Christina Rossetti

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. — Christina Rossetti

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine. — Christina Rossetti

Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me. — Christina Rossetti

This life is but the passage of a day, This life is but a pang and all is over; But in the life to come which fades not away Every love shall abide and every lover. — Christina Rossetti

For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you. — Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Quotes About Life

My life is like a faded leaf, My harvest dwindled to a husk: Truly my life is void and brief And tedious in the barren dusk; My life is like a frozen thing, No bud nor greenness can I see: Yet rise it shall - the sap of Spring; O Jesus, rise in me. — Christina Rossetti

Spring is when life's alive in everything. — Christina Rossetti

I have no wit, no words, no tears; My heart within me like a stone Is numb'd too much for hopes or fears; Look right, look left, I dwell alone; I lift mine eyes, but dimm'd with grief No everlasting hills I see; My life is in the falling leaf: O Jesus, quicken me. — Christina Rossetti

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. — Christina Rossetti

I have a room whereinto no one enters Save I myself alone: There sits a blessed memory on a throne, There my life centres. — 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 ago — Christina Rossetti

Good deeds are many, but good lives are few. — Christina Rossetti

And sometimes I remember days of old When fellowship seemed not so far to seek, And all the world and I seemed much less cold, And at the rainbow's foot lay surely gold, And hope felt strong, and life itself not weak. — Christina Rossetti

There is no time like Spring When life's alive in everything, Before new nestlings sing, Before cleft swallows speed their journey back Along the trackless track. — Christina Rossetti

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

Christina Rossetti Quotes About Death

When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me — Christina Rossetti

And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying. — Christina Rossetti

As a tree my sin stands To darken all lands; Death is the fruit it bore. — Christina Rossetti

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. — Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Quotes About Hope

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. — Christina Rossetti

Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth... — Christina Rossetti

For I am bound with fleshly bands,Joy, beauty, lie beyond my scope;I strain my heart, I stretch my hands,And catch at hope. — Christina Rossetti

Hope dead lives nevermore, No, not in heaven. — 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 shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams. — Christina Rossetti

Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth. — Christina Rossetti

Come to me in the silence of the night, Come to me in the speaking silence of a dream.Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright as sunlight on a stream.Come back in tears,O memory, hope, love of finished years. — Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Quotes About Eyes

Where innocent bright-eyes daisies are With blades of grass between, Each daisy stands up like a star Out of a sky of green. — Christina Rossetti

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away. — Christina Rossetti

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, Where? What? and turn away. — Christina Rossetti

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away. — Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Quotes About Heart

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. — Christina Rossetti

My heart is like a singing bird. — Christina Rossetti

Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank. — Christina Rossetti

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. — Christina Rossetti

To her whose heart is my heart's quiet home, To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome. — Christina Rossetti

Rest, rest at the heart's core . . . till joy shall overtake. — Christina Rossetti

My heart is like a singing birdWhose nest is in a water'd shoot;My heart is like an apple-treeWhose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit... — Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Famous Quotes And Sayings

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. — Christina Rossetti

I wonder if the sap is stirring yet, If wintry birds are dreaming of a mate, If frozen snowdrops feel as yet the sun And crocus fires are kindling one by one: Sing robin, sing: I still am sore in doubt concerning Spring. — Christina Rossetti

Love loves for ever, And finds a sort of joy in pain, And gives with nought to take again, And loves too well to end in vain: Is the gain small then? Love laughs at "never", Outlives our life, exceeds the span Appointed to mere mortal man: All which love is and does and can Is all in all then. — Christina Rossetti

Oh that it were with me As with the flower; Blooming on its own tree For butterfly and bee Its summer morns: That I might bloom mine hour A rose in spite of thorns. Oh that my work were done As birds' that soar Rejoicing in the sun: That when my time is run And daylight too, I so might rest once more Cool with refreshing dew. — Christina Rossetti

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by. — Christina Rossetti

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. — Christina Rossetti

Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf. — 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

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

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 — Christina Rossetti

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. — Christina Rossetti

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

And may you happy live, And long us bless. — Christina Rossetti

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

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. — Christina Rossetti

The Bourne Underneath the growing grass, Underneath the living flowers, Deeper than the sound of showers: There we shall not count the hours By the shadows as they pass. Youth and health will be but vain, Beauty reckoned of no worth: There a very little girth Can hold round what once the earth Seemed too narrow to contain. — Christina Rossetti

Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards 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. — Christina Rossetti

In the bleak midwinterFrosty 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. — Christina Rossetti

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. — Christina Rossetti

January cold and desolate; February dripping wet; March wind ranges; April changes; Birds sing in tune To flowers of May, And sunny June Brings longest day; In scorched July The storm-clouds fly, Lightning-torn; August bears corn, September fruit; In rough October Earth must disrobe her; Stars fall and shoot In keen November; And night is long And cold is strong In bleak December. — Christina Rossetti

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. — Christina Rossetti

The rose saith in the dewy morn, I am most fair; Yet all my loveliness is born Upon a thorn. — Christina Rossetti

Not as she is, but as she fills his dream — Christina Rossetti

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

Born in a stable, Cradled in a manger, In the world His hands have made, Born a stranger. — Christina Rossetti

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") — Christina Rossetti

The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower — Christina Rossetti

Flowers preach to us if we will hear. — Christina Rossetti

Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience is the early blossom on the tree of faith. — Christina Rossetti

One day in the country Is worth a month in town — Christina Rossetti

What is green? The grass is green, With small flowers between. What is violet? Clouds are violet In the summer twilight. What is orange? Why, an orange, Just an orange! — Christina Rossetti

What is pink? A rose is pink By the fountain's brink. — Christina Rossetti

It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken. — Christina Rossetti

The downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back. — Christina Rossetti

A pin has a head, but has no hair — Christina Rossetti

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. — Christina Rossetti

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

Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth. — Christina Rossetti

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. — Christina Rossetti

I wish I could remember the first day, First hour, first moment of your meeting me; If bright or dim the season it might be; Summer or winter for aught I can say. So, unrecorded did it slip away, So blind was i to see and to forsee, So dull to mark the budding of my tree That would not blossom, yet, for many a May. — Christina Rossetti

What is the beginning? Love. What is the course. Love still. What the goal. The goal is love. — Christina Rossetti

Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad. — Christina Rossetti

O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea. — Christina Rossetti

Heaven is the presence of God. — Christina Rossetti

I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on. — Christina Rossetti

Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep. — Christina Rossetti

All things that pass Are wisdom's looking-glass. — Christina Rossetti

All earth's full rivers can not fillThe sea that drinking thirsteth still. — Christina Rossetti

Life Lessons by Christina Rossetti

1. Christina Rossetti's poetry emphasizes the importance of living in the present moment, as she often wrote about the fleeting nature of time and the beauty of the world around us.
2. Her work also encourages us to find joy in the simple things, as she wrote about the beauty of nature and the importance of cherishing our relationships with others.
3. Finally, her work reminds us to stay humble and grateful, as she often wrote about the importance of being content with what we have and appreciating the small blessings in life.