170 Quotes by Christina Rossetti

I weep as I have never wept: Oh it was summer when I slept, It's winter now I waken.

Oh that it were with meAs with the flower;Blooming on its own treeFor butterfly and beeIts summer morns:That I might bloom mine hourA rose in spite of thorns.

A pair of peasants must be saved even if we build an ark.

I'll love him til he loves me bestMe best of all, Maude Clare

I charge you at the Judgement make it plain,My love of you was life and not a breath.

I have no heart? Perhaps I have not; / But then you're mad to take offense / That I don't give you what I have not got; / Use your own common sense.

When wombats do inspire/I strike my disused lyre

Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep.

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.