27 Quotes by Christina Georgina Rossetti

I cannot tell you how it was, / But this I know: it came to pass / Upon a bright and sunny day / When May was young; ah, pleasant May!

I cannot tell you what it was, / But this I know: it did but pass. / It passed away with sunny May, / Like all sweet things it passed away, / And left me old, and cold, and gray.

Love me - I love you, / Love me, my baby / Sing it high, sing it low / Sing it as may be.

If hope grew on a bush / And joy grew on a tree / What a nosegay for the pluckingThere would be!

A baby's cradle with no baby in it/ A baby's grave where autumn leaves drop sere/ The sweet soul gathered home to paradise /The body waiting here.

I know a baby, such a baby / Round blue eyes and cheeks of pink / Such an elbow furrowed with dimples / Such a wrist where creases sink / ‘Cuddle and love me, cuddle and love me’/ Crows the mouth of coral pink / Oh, the bald head, and, oh, the sweet lips / And, oh, the sleepy eyes that wink!

Rejoicing in the sun: / That when my time is run / And daylight too, / I so might rest once more / Cool with refreshing dew.

A ring upon her finger, walks the bride, with the bridegroom tall and handsome at her side.

For careless joys, yet it's I who wear the ring.