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Christina G. 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.”
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“My heart is like a singing bird / ... / Because the birthday of my life / Is come, my love is come to me.”
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“Does the road wind uphill all the way? / Yes, to the very end. / Will the day's journey take the whole long day? / From morn to night, my friend.”
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“Sleep that no pain shall wake, / Night that no morn shall break.”
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“Remember me when I am gone away, / Gone far away into the silent land ...”
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“Better by far you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad.”
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“Oh roses for the flush of youth, / And laurel for the perfect prime; / But pluck an ivy branch for me / Grown old before my time.”
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“When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me; / Plant thou no roses at my head, / Nor shady cypress tree: / Be the green grass above me / With showers and dewdrops wet; / And if thou wilt, remember, / And if thou wilt, forget.”
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“Silence more musical than any song ...”
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“Winter is cold-hearted, / Spring is yea and nay, / Autumn is a weathercock / Blown every way: / Summer days for me / When every leaf is on its tree ... ”
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“One day in the country / Is worth a month in town.”
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“Hurt no living thing: / Ladybird, nor butterfly, / Nor moth with dusty wing, / Nor cricket chirping cheerily ...”
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“Heaven is the presence of God.”
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“To her whose heart is my heart's quiet home, / To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee / I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome ...”
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“Tread softly! all the earth is holy ground.”
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“Many thrive on frugal fare / Who would perish of excess.”
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“This downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back.”
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“Who has seen the wind? / Neither you nor I: / But when the trees bow down their heads / The wind is passing by.”
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“Good deeds are many, but good lives are few ...”
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“If all the world were water fit to drown / There are some whom you would not teach to swim.”
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“Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes; work never begun.”
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“I do but sing because I must / And pipe but as the linnets sing ...”
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“Her heart sat silent thro' the noise / And concourse of the street. / There was no hurry in her hands, / No hurry in her feet.”
Christina G. Rossetti, English poet
(1830 - 1894)
Full name: Christina Georgina Rossetti. She also used the pen name Ellen Alleyne.