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Christina Rossetti Quotes about Spring

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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.

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 Rossetti
Spring, Ocean, Sea
Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.319, Delphi Classics

My life is like a faded leaf, My harvest dwindled to a husk: Truly my life is void and brief And tedious in the barren dusk; My life is like a frozen thing, No bud nor greenness can I see: Yet rise it shall - the sap of Spring; O Jesus, rise in me.

Christina Rossetti
Jesus, Spring, Life Is Like
Christina Rossetti, C.H. Sisson (2014). “Selected Poems”, p.64, Routledge

Spring is when life's alive in everything.

Christina Rossetti
Spring, Alive, Spring Break
Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.83, Delphi Classics

January cold and desolate; February dripping wet; March wind ranges; April changes; Birds sing in tune To flowers of May, And sunny June Brings longest day; In scorched July The storm-clouds fly, Lightning-torn; August bears corn, September fruit; In rough October Earth must disrobe her; Stars fall and shoot In keen November; And night is long And cold is strong In bleak December.

Christina Rossetti
Strong, Stars, Spring
Christina Rossetti (2014). “Rossetti: Poems”, p.128, Everyman's Library

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
Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.122, Delphi Classics

Spring bursts today, For love is risen and all the earth's at play.

Christina Rossetti
Easter, Spring, Love Is

There is no time like Spring When life's alive in everything, Before new nestlings sing, Before cleft swallows speed their journey back Along the trackless track.

Christina Rossetti
Spring, Journey, Track
Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.83, Delphi Classics

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
Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.11, OUP Oxford

Spring's an expansive time: yet I don't trust March with its peck of dust, Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers, Nor even May, whose flowers One frost may wither thro' the sunless hours.

Christina Rossetti
Spring, Flower, Winter
Christina Rossetti (2012). “Goblin Market and Other Poems”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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