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
spring journey track
There is no time like Spring When life's alive in everything, Before new nestlings sing, Before cleft swallows speed their journey back Along the trackless track.
ocean drinking sea
Why does the sea moan evermore? Shut out from heaven it makes its moan, It frets against the boundary shore; All earth's full rivers cannot fill The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
white lilies
Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white.
glasses all-things
All things that pass Are wisdom's looking-glass.
lilies purity preaching
The lilies say: Behold how we Preach without words of purity.
drinking rivers sea
All earth's full rivers can not fillThe sea that drinking thirsteth still.
time ivy perfect
Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.
spring ocean sea
What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.
holy-ground earth holy
Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.
humble men air
The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble lessons we would read.
rose born fairs
The rose saith in the dewy morn, I am most fair; Yet all my loveliness is born Upon a thorn.
hope
Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.