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Let but my scarlet head appear And I am held in scorn; Yet juice of subtile virtue lies Within my cup of curious dyes.


Christina G. Rossetti

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We shall escape the uphill by never turning back.
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Spring bursts to-day, For Christ is risen and all the earth's at play.
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI One by one the flowers close, Lily and dewy rose Shutting their tender petals from the moon.
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI For there is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather, to cheer one on the tedious way, to...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance o...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Somewhere or other there must surely be The face not seen, the voice not heard, The heart that...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Hark! that's the nightingale, Telling the self-same tale Her song told when this ancient eart...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI The angel of spring, the mellow-throated nightingale.
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI O happy skylark springing Up to the broad, blue sky, Too fearless in thy winging, Too gl...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI The sunrise wakes the lark to sing, The moonrise wakes the nightingale. Come, darkness, moonri...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn, And climbing for the priz...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fa...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Wood-pigeons cooed there, stock-doves nestled there; My trees were full on songs and flowers and f...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI There goes the swallow,-- Could we but follow! Hasty swallow, stay, Point us out the way...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird ra...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Before green apples blush, Before green nuts embrown, Why, one day in the country Is wor...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a sto...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts: and no one to thank
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI A sister is one who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, ''Where? What?'' and ...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Love came down at Christmas; love all lovely, love divine; love was born at Christmas, stars and ang...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI To strengthen whilst one stands.
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Spring bursts to-day, For Christ is risen and all the earth's at play.
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI 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 wo...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI My heart is like a singing bird.
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou ...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Silence is more musical than any song.
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Be found of us whom Thou hast deigned to seek, / Be found that we the more may seek for Thee; / Lord...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on.
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up ...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou ...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 Heaven overarches earth and sea, Earth-sadness and sea-b...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 "I have not sought Thee, I have not found Thee, I have no...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 At morn I plucked a rose and give it Thee, A rose of joy an...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 A Better Resurrection I have no wit, no words, no tears; ...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 What can I give Him Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd, ...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 Am I a stone, and not a sheep, That I can stand, 0 Christ...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedio...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Come to me in the silence of the night,
Come to me in the speaking silence of a dream.
Come w...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, Where? What? and tur...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tr...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI For I am bound with fleshly bands,
Joy, beauty, lie beyond my scope;
I strain my heart, I stre...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passin...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Obedience is the fruit of faith.
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and ...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whol...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Silence is more musical than any song.
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI My heart is like a singing bird.
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to ...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI [Spring is] when life's alive in everything.
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart;
My silent heart, lie still and break:
Life, and...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Who shall tell the lady's grief
When her Cat was past relief?
Who shall number the hot tea...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;
Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI When I Am Dead, My Dearest

When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI obstreperously,—
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI O where are you going with your love-locks flowing
On the west wind bellowing along this valley...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Evening by evening
Among the Brookside rushes,
Laura bow'd her head to hear,
Lizzie v...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Good folk, I have no coin,
To take were to purloin:
I have no copper in my purse,
I h...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI I have no heart?--Perhaps I have not;
But then you're mad to take offence
That I don't giv...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI We must not look at goblin men,
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil the...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.
What are brief? today and tomorrow.
What are frail? s...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Choose love not in the shallows
but in the deep.
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI A Pause of Thought

I looked for that which is not, nor can be,
And hope defer...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
'Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come b...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Then a hundred sad voices lifted a wail,
And a hundred glad voices piped on the gale:
'Tim...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI The birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.
CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Adversity precedes growth.
ROSEMARIE ROSSETTI It is important that you recognize your progress and take pride in your accomplishments. Share your ...
ROSEMARIE ROSSETTI It takes a real desire to reach the ends of the world; it takes real obstacles to define that one tr...
CHRISTINA When you figure out the face beneath the mask, the mystery is gone. All that is left is to touch his...
CHRISTINA Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise, 'twas on...
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI This sunlight shames November where he grieves In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun T...
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough, A-top on the topmost twig--which the pl...
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Her voice was like the voice the stars Had when they sang together.
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI A sonnet is a moment's monument, -/ Memorial from the Soul's eternity/ To one dead deathless hour.
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI I have been here before./ But when or how I cannot tell:/ I know the grass beyond the door,/ The swe...
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.
CHRISTINA MILIAN It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting 'Saturday Night Live.' You either sin...
CHRISTINA AGUILERA The will to never give up and to be fearless. That's what I have.
CHRISTINA MILIAN I'm an independent. I've signed with no label.
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE When I write music, I know a lot of artists like Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran tend to write from perso...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE I'm a perfectionist, so everything I put out needs to be, like, 100 percent. So when it comes to...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE There's a band called Pantera that I listen to, and then Metallica's 'And Justice for Al...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE When you think Selena Gomez, you think 'celebrity.' But really, she does so many things for ...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE Me being the metal fan that I am, I like to listen to thrash metal to get me pumped - that kind of m...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE I'd love to open for Bieber. It would be awesome; that would definitely be the crowd I would wan...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE People tell you what you have to wear and do, and I've never been a fan of it.
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE 'The Voice' gave me the exposure that YouTube was never able to provide for me, just because...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE Honestly, 'Side A' is supposed to be a project just from my heart and whatever is happening ...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE I have no boyfriend. No time. None send me over the moon, so I just kind of do my thing.
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE I've always loved music and was singing from the age of seven on karaoke.
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE I'm that girl that's a hardcore musician and loves to sing and write and play instruments bu...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE 'Side A' was a project that I wanted to do, stuff that I produced completely, and it was jus...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE Most of all, I like to sing my heart out to lyrics that really speak to people.
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE I know the fans are very personable with my mom and things like that. They make little collages and ...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE My new song 'Shrug' I created with two guys. The idea was a message about ignoring haters. P...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE I have God, Jesus Christ: I'm Christian. I try to stay as grounded as I possibly can. And I have...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE My goal in my career is to inspire people, is to get my music out there and have people enjoy it, an...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE I'm one of those people who laughs everything off. If I mess up, I just say, 'Ha! Totally di...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE I want to be able to show people that I have flaws and they have flaws, too. And you know what that ...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE People aren't born strong. People grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situati...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE Confidence is not, 'They will like me'. Confidence instead is, 'I'll be fine if they...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE The most effective way to shake an economy out of a terrible downturn when we're at the zero low...
CHRISTINA ROMER I'm a total protein shake junkie nerd. I get creative every morning - you never know what you...
CHRISTINA PERRI It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
QUEEN CHRISTINA I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic tr...
CHRISTINA AGUILERA If you think about it, candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, was running on sort of long-run economic issues,...
CHRISTINA ROMER I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. H...
CHRISTINA AGUILERA I felt caged by my childhood.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA I have to have a little bit of time to myself right before whatever it is that I have to do because ...
CHRISTINA MILIAN The most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, ki...
CHRISTINA AGUILERA I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burles...
CHRISTINA AGUILERA President Obama has repeatedly urged Congress to let the Bush tax cuts expire for those earning more...
CHRISTINA ROMER To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting t...
CHRISTINA BALDWIN I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.
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CHRISTINA ENGELA Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in.
CHRISTINA RICCI I'm not too hard on myself about dieting and exercise. Some stars are a little too bony for me. ...
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CHRISTINA WESTOVER The roughest roads often lead to the top.
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CHRISTINA BULTINCK It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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CHRISTINA WODTKE I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing ...
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CHRISTINA AGUILERA Ooh, that was just a little phase (smashing plates to relieve pain). I don't do that any more but it...
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CHRISTINA AGUILERA I wasn't expecting it [Grammy]... I'm such a newcomer among all these people.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA Oh my God, you guys, I seriously do not have a speech prepared whatsoever. I'm shaking right now.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA I hope for the best, it's great to be nominated even once in your life.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA "I feel so fortunate to be 22 right now and having three [grammy awards] under my belt, which is ama...
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CHRISTINA AGUILERA Someone who's like Angelina Jolie because she isn't scared of not being pretty. She's my favourtie a...
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CHRISTINA ENGELA Attention, aboard the shuttle! You are under arrest! Surrender immediately! Come out slowly, in sing...
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CHRISTINA ROMER I would just love to do something where I'd have to train and work really hard and do one of tho...
CHRISTINA MILIAN Growing up, I had an internal struggle with my body because I was really chubby. My sisters were you...
CHRISTINA MILIAN Red lips and fragrance always top off an outfit for me.
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