Christina Rossetti

Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet? ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#life

Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#sadness #change

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

— Christina Rossetti

#goblin #market #rossetti #men

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. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#change #hope #longing #love #past

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#mine #our #shall #token #yours

Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#love

Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#life

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. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#hope #death

I'll love him til he loves me best Me best of all, Maude Clare ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#love #maude-clare #rosetti #love

I charge you at the Judgement make it plain, My love of you was life and not a breath. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#love