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Christina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is famous for writing Goblin Market and "Remember". She also wrote the words of the Christmas carols "In the Bleak Midwinter", set to a tune by Gustav Holst, and "Love Came Down at Christmas".

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Spring is when life's alive in everything.

Alive, Everything, Spring, Spring Break

And sometimes I remember days of old When fellowship seemed not so far to seek, And all the world and I seemed much less cold, And at the rainbow's foot lay surely gold, And hope felt strong, and life itself not weak.

Feet, Hope, Old, Rainbow, Strong, Weak

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.

Bible, Faith, Teaching, Thinking, Towards

Christmas hath a darkness; Brighter than the blazing noon; Christmas hath a chillness Warmer than the heat of June, Christmas hath a beauty Lovelier than the world can show: For Christmas bringeth Jesus, Brought for us so low

Christmas, Jesus, June, Brought, Warmer

Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.

Cypresses, Death, Dying, Grass, Remember, Thou

O Lord, who art our guide even unto death, grant us, I pray Thee, grace to follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest. In little daily duties to which Thou callest us, bow down our wills to simple obedience.

Art, Daily, Follow, Grace, Simple, Thee

My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.

Apples, Heart, Like, Nest, Water

As a tree my sin stands To darken all lands; Death is the fruit it bore.

Darken, Fruit, Land, Lands, Tree

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.

Corruption, Darkness, Grieving, Mourning, Remember, Vestige

Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.

Angels, Christmas, Gave, Sign, Stars, Xmas

For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.

Holds, Love, Men, World

Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.

Away, Gone, Gone Away, Land, Remember

It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.

Bird, Quicken, Race, Summer, Swallow, Wheel

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

Begun, Inspirational, Sadder, Women, Work, Yes

We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?

Fed, Looks, Men, Roots, Soil, Thirsty

Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.

Earth, Holy, Holy Ground, Tread

A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.

Apt, Contemplate, Man, Men, Self, Surroundings

Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens A rose today. But you will ask in vain Tomorrow what it is; and yesterday It was the dust, the sunshine, and the rains.

Flower, Observe, Rain, Sunshine, Today, Tomorrow

I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?

Door, Doors, Lock, Self, Wall

All earth's full rivers can not fillThe sea that drinking thirsteth still.

Drinking, Fillthe, Rivers, Sea, Thirsteth

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