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Christina Rossetti [1830-1894] British
Rank: 101
Poet (with poems)

Christian, Free verse, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Sonnet, Speculative, Spiritualism, Victorian


Christina Georgina Rossetti was 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.

Hope, Beauty, Faith, Family, Romantic, Sad, Smile, Truth, Valentine's Day, Work



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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. Family
101
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad. Sad, Smile
102
My heart is like a singing bird. Romantic
103
I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on.
104
Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine. Valentine's Day
105
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. Beauty, Hope, Truth
106
Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth. Hope
107
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.
108
Obedience is the fruit of faith. Faith
109
I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.
110
Silence is more musical than any song.
111
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Work
112
And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.
113

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