And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.
Christina Rossetti

Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.
Christina Rossetti

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.
Christina Rossetti

Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth.
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 turn away.
Christina Rossetti

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.
Christina Rossetti

My heart is like a singing bird.
Christina Rossetti

Obedience is the fruit of faith.
Christina Rossetti

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.
Christina Rossetti

Silence is more musical than any song.
Christina Rossetti

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.
Christina Rossetti