Christina Rossetti

“Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.”

“Where there are no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank.”

“Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one thank.”

“Give me the lowest place: not that I dareAsk for that lowest place, but Thou hast diedThat I might live and shareThy glory by Thy side.Give me the lowest place: of if for meThat lowest place too high, make one more lowWhere I may sit and seeMy God and love Thee so.”

“Ah me, but where are now the songs I sangWhen life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?”

“All others are outside myself;I lock my door and bar them outThe turmoil, tedium, gad-about.I lock my door upon myself,And bar them out; but who shall wallSelf from myself, most loathed of all?If I could once lay down myself,And start self-purged upon the raceThat all must run ! Death runs apace.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on.”

“Obedience is the fruit of faith.”