170 Quotes by Christina Rossetti

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

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 I can I give himGive my heart.

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

The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower

One day in the country Is worth a month in town

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

Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.

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.

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.