170 Quotes by Christina Rossetti

Beautiful, delightful, noble, memorable, as is the world, I yet am well content in my shady crevice.

She kissed and kissed her with a hungry mouth.

Spring is when life’s alive in everything.

Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.

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.

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

A pin has a head, but has no hair.

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

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.