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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 standsChristina Rossetti
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Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?Christina Rossetti
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What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.Christina Rossetti
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Fair as the moon and joyful as the light; Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams.Christina Rossetti
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For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.Christina Rossetti
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In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.Christina Rossetti
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I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?Christina Rossetti
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He feeds upon her face by day and night, And she with true kind eyes looks back on him, Fair as the moon and joyful as the light: Not wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dream.Christina Rossetti
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Promise me no promises, So will I not promise you: Keep we both our liberties, Never false and never true: Let us hold the die uncast, Free to come as free to go: For I cannot know your past, And of mine what can you know?Christina Rossetti
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Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry:' Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buyChristina Rossetti
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Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you planned: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.Christina Rossetti
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Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.Christina Rossetti
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Where there are no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank.Christina Rossetti
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All others are outside myself; I lock my door and bar them out The turmoil, tedium, gad-about. I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all? If I could once lay down myself, And start self-purged upon the race That all must run ! Death runs apace.Christina Rossetti
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Then a hundred sad voices lifted a wail, And a hundred glad voices piped on the gale:' Time is short, life is short, ' they took up the tale: 'Life is sweet, love is sweet, use to-day while you may; Love is sweet, and to-morrow may fail; Love is sweet, use to-day.Christina Rossetti
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Give me the lowest place: not that I dare Ask for that lowest place, but Thou hast died That I might live and share Thy glory by Thy side. Give me the lowest place: of if for me That lowest place too high, make one more low Where I may sit and see My God and love Thee so.Christina Rossetti
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Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one thank.Christina Rossetti
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For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge, I live alone, I look to die alone: Yet sometimes, when a wind sighs through the sedge, Ghosts of my buried years, and friends come back, My heart goes sighing after swallows flown On sometime summer's unreturning track.Christina Rossetti
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Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.Christina Rossetti
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A fool I was to sleep at noon, And wake when night is chilly Beneath the comfortless cold moon; A fool to pluck my rose too soon, A fool to snap my lily. My garden-plot I have not kept; Faded and all-forsaken, I weep as I have never wept: Oh it was summer when I slept, It's winter now I waken. Talk what you please of future spring And sun-warm'd sweet to-orrow: Stripp'd bare of hope and everything, No more to laugh, no more to sing, I sit alone with sorrow.Christina Rossetti
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Good folk, I have no coin, To take were to purloin: I have no copper in my purse, I have no silver either, And all my gold is on the furze That shakes in windy weather Above the rusy heather.Christina Rossetti
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Evening by evening Among the Brookside rushes, Laura bow'd her head to hear, Lizzie veil'd her blushes: Crouching close together In the cooling weather, With clasping arms and cautioning lips, With tingling cheeks and fingertips."lie close, " Laura said, Pricking up her golden head:" We must not look at Goblin men, We must not buy their fruits:who knows upon the soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?"" Come buy, " call the GoblinsHobbling down the glen .Christina Rossetti
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Who shall tell the lady's grief When her Cat was past relief? Who shall number the hot tears Shed o'er her, beloved for years? Who shall say the dark dismay Which her dying caused that day?Christina Rossetti
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And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dyingChristina Rossetti
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O cousin Kate, my love was true, Your love was writ in sand: If he had fooled not me but you, If you had stood where i stand, He'd not have won me with his love, Nor bought me with his land; I would have spit into his face And not have taken his hand. Yet I have a gift you have not got, And seem not like to get: For all your clothes and wedding-ring I've little doubt you fret. My fair-haired son, my shame, my pride, Cling closer, closer yet: Your father would give lands for oneto wear his coronet .Christina Rossetti
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Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of thoughts that I once had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.Christina Rossetti
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Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes work never begun.Christina Rossetti
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The sea hath no king but God alone.Christina Rossetti
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Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.Christina Rossetti
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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
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Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.Christina Rossetti
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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.Christina Rossetti
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Love shall be our token love be yours and love be mine.Christina Rossetti
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Obedience is the fruit of faith.Christina Rossetti
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Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.Christina Rossetti