Famous quotes containing the words christina georgina rossetti, georgina rossetti, christina georgina, georgina and/or rossetti:
“The city mouse lives in a house;—
The garden mouse lives in a bower,”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)
“And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)
“Spring’s an expansive time: yet I don’t trust
March with its peck of dust,
Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers,
Nor even May, whose flowers
One frost may wither thro’ the sunless hours.”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)
“Gone were but the Winter,
Come were but the Spring,
I would go to a covert
Where the birds sing.”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)
“Among those few, out of the sun,
The woodspurge flowered, three cups in one.
From perfect grief there need not be
Wisdom or even memory:
One thing then learnt remains to me,—
The woodspurge has a cup of three.”
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)