Famous quotes containing the words christina georgina rossetti, georgina rossetti, christina georgina, georgina and/or rossetti:
“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 Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)
“Their fruits like honey to the throat
But poison in the blood”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)
“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 Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)
“I might show facts as plain as day:
But, since your eyes are blind, you’d say,
“Where? What?” and turn away.”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)
“So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns
No answering smile from me, whose life is twin’d
With the dead boughs that winter still must bind,”
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)