Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti
Christina Georgina Rossettiwas an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is famous for writing Goblin Market and Remember, and the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth5 December 1830
love men world
For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.
strong stars spring
January cold and desolate; February dripping wet; March wind ranges; April changes; Birds sing in tune To flowers of May, And sunny June Brings longest day; In scorched July The storm-clouds fly, Lightning-torn; August bears corn, September fruit; In rough October Earth must disrobe her; Stars fall and shoot In keen November; And night is long And cold is strong In bleak December.
lilies purity preaching
The lilies say: Behold how we Preach without words of purity.
rain flower sunshine
Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens A rose today. But you will ask in vain Tomorrow what it is; and yesterday It was the dust, the sunshine, and the rains.
land tree fruit
As a tree my sin stands To darken all lands; Death is the fruit it bore.
grieving mourning darkness
Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.
good-life deeds good-deeds
Good deeds are many, but good lives are few ...
heart joy core
Rest, rest at the heart's core . . . till joy shall overtake.
rooms paradise casts
The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.
beauty eye vanity
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
passing-by wind clouds
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.
christmas jesus june
Christmas hath a darkness; Brighter than the blazing noon; Christmas hath a chillness Warmer than the heat of June, Christmas hath a beauty Lovelier than the world can show: For Christmas bringeth Jesus, Brought for us so low
nature stars eye
Where innocent bright-eyes daisies are With blades of grass between, Each daisy stands up like a star Out of a sky of green.
death dying green
Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.