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“O passing angel, speed me with a song, a melody of heaven to reach my heart and rouse me to the race and make me strong.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Inspirational #Song #Strong
“Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Work #Unfinished
“Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Love #Love Is #And Love
“Silence is more musical than any song.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Song #Silence #Musical
“Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Death #Dying #Green
“Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Christmas #Stars #Angel
“Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep.”
-- Christina Rossetti
“Open wide the windows of our spirits and fill us full of light; open wide the door of our hearts, that we may receive and entertain Thee with all our powers of adoration.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Heart #Light #Doors
“Flowers preach to us if we will hear.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Flower
“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Happiness #Smile #Sad
“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 would do my part. Yet what can I give Him? I give Him my heart.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Christmas #Wise #Heart
“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

#Beauty #Eye #Vanity
“I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Eye #Might #Facts
“Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#God #Grateful #Heart
“Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Clouds #Air #Wind
“I wonder if the sap is stirring yet, If wintry birds are dreaming of a mate, If frozen snowdrops feel as yet the sun And crocus fires are kindling one by one: Sing robin, sing: I still am sore in doubt concerning Spring.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Dream #Spring #Fire
“Spring bursts today, For love is risen and all the earth's at play.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Spring #Love Is #Play
“Gone were but the Winter, Come were but the Spring, I would go to a covert Where the birds sing; Where in the whitethorn Singeth a thrush, And a robin sings In the holly-bush. Full of fresh scents Are the budding boughs Arching high over A cool green house: Full of sweet scents, And whispering air Which sayeth softly: We spread no snare; Here dwell in safety, Here dwell alone, With a clear stream And a mossy stone. Here the sun shineth Most shadily; Here is heard an echo Of the far sea, Though far off it be.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Sweet #Spring #Winter
“I wish I could remember the first day, First hour, first moment of your meeting me; If bright or dim the season it might be; Summer or winter for aught I can say. So, unrecorded did it slip away, So blind was i to see and to forsee, So dull to mark the budding of my tree That would not blossom, yet, for many a May.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Summer #Famous Love #Winter
“To me it seems our duty towards the Bible is to obey its teaching in faith. I do not think we are bound to understand or account for all its utterances.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Faith #Teaching #Thinking
“Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Hope #Birth #Trembling
“Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Land #Gone #Remember
“O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Sea #Lord #Shallow
“Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience is the early blossom on the tree of faith.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Tree #Fruit #Obedience
“Where innocent bright-eyes daisies are With blades of grass between, Each daisy stands up like a star Out of a sky of green.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Nature #Stars #Eye
“Christmas hath a beauty ... lovelier than the world can show.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Christmas #World #Shows
“The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble lessons we would read.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Humble #Men #Air
“The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Paradise #Rooms #Casts
“Why does the sea moan evermore? Shut out from heaven it makes its moan, It frets against the boundary shore; All earth's full rivers cannot fill The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Ocean #Drinking #Sea
“Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.”
-- Christina Rossetti

#Lilies #Fields #Mortality

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