27 Quotes by Christina Georgina Rossetti

The peacock has a score of eyes, With which he cannot see; The cod-fish has a silent sound.

The peach tree on the southern wall / Has basked so long beneath the sun, / Her score of peaches great and small / Bloom rosy, every one.

Shed petals white or pink, / Plum-trees and peach-trees; / While sharp showers sink and sink.

Hung on laden orange-trees, whose shadowed foliage is the foil to golden lamps and oranges.

O wind, where have you been, / That you blow so sweet?

‘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!

Blind from my birth, / Where flowers are springing / I sit on earth / All dark.

What is pink? a rose is pink / By a fountain's brink. / What is red? a poppy's red / In its barley bed. / What is blue? the sky is blue / Where the clouds float thro' / What is white? a swan is white / Sailing in the light. / What is yellow? pears are yellow, / Rich and ripe and mellow. / 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!

Bread and milk for breakfast, / And woolen frocks to wear, / And a crumb for robin redbreast / On the cold days of the year.