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
calm cheer fetch friend goes lift stormy strengthen tedious whilst
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.
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.
land tree fruit
As a tree my sin stands To darken all lands; Death is the fruit it bore.
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.
hope lying heart
For I am bound with fleshly bands, Joy, beauty, lie beyond my scope; I strain my heart, I stretch my hands, And catch at hope.
summer race bird
It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.
land gone-away remember
Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.
jesus spring life-is-like
My life is like a faded leaf, My harvest dwindled to a husk: Truly my life is void and brief And tedious in the barren dusk; My life is like a frozen thing, No bud nor greenness can I see: Yet rise it shall - the sap of Spring; O Jesus, rise in me.
summer flower twilight
What is green? The grass is green, With small flowers between. What is violet? Clouds are violet In the summer twilight. What is orange? Why, an orange, Just an orange!
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.
christmas world shows
Christmas hath a beauty ... lovelier than the world can show.