Christina Rossetti

thumb|Christina Rossetti, English poet (1848) Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 – December 29, 1894) was an English poet and the sister of artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Quotes Does the road wind up-hill all the way?Yes, to the very end.Will the day's journey take the whole long day?From morn to night, my friend. Up-Hill, st. 1 (1861). My heart is like a singing birdWhose nest is in a water'd shoot;My heart is like an apple-treeWhose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit. A Birthday, st. 1 (1861). The birthday of my lifeIs come, my love is come to me. A Birthday, st. 2. 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 meWith showers and dewdrops wet;And if thou wilt, remember,And if thou wilt, forget. Song, st. 1 (1862). Remember me when I am gone away,Gone far away into the silent land. Remember, l. 1-2 (1862). Better by far you should forget and smileThan that you should remember and be sad. Remember, l. 13-14. For there is no friend like a sisterIn 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. Goblin Market, st. 28 (1862). Oh roses for the flush of youth,And laurel for the perfect prime;But pluck an ivy branch for meGrown old before my time. Song, st. 1 (1862). In the bleak mid-winterFrosty wind made moan,Earth stood hard as iron,Water like a stone;Snow had fallen, snow on snow,Snow on snow,In the bleak mid-winterLong ago. Mid-Winter, st. 1 (1872). Who has seen the wind?Neither you nor I:But when the trees bow down their headsThe wind is passing by. Who Has Seen the Wind?, st. 2 (1872). Sleeping at last, the trouble and tumult over,Sleeping at last, the struggle and horror past,Cold and white, out of sight of friend and of lover,Sleeping at last. Sleeping at Last, st. 1 (1893) . Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth,Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth,Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white,Love is like a lovely rose, the world’s delight.Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth,But the rose with all its thorns excels them both. Hope is like a Harebell; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). All earth’s full rivers can not fillThe sea that drinking thirsteth still. By the Sea; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919); Old and New, Volume 5 (1872), p. 169. One day in the countryIs worth a month in town. Summer; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Silence more musical than any song. Sonnet. Rest; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Oh Lord, make thy law, I entreat thee, our delight. Selections from the Worlds Devotional classics.P.212. E.R.Scott and G.W.Gilmour, Funk and Wagnells, New York, London. Quotes about Christina Rossetti (Another story inspired by a previous story was "Pico Rico Mandorico," the story of two sisters who escape the power of a devil figure. Wasn't that influenced by Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market"?) Yes, in fact my story is a prose rendition of the poem. I said so in the introduction to Sonatinas, the book in Spanish…I liked it so much I said, "I want to do my own version of this"... Writing is a lot like sewing: You bring pieces together and make a quilt. What brought me to Rossetti's story was a dirge, a little ditty called "Pico Rico Mandorico/Quién te dio tamaño pico?" ["Pico Rico, far and wide/leaves a mark where others hide"]. In this nursery rhyme there is a man dressed in black who comes to the house of a little girl. It's always on Sundays-that's very important. He has a very long nose and he spills everything on the table, so they have to cut off his nose. The man is really a devil, and he wants to steal the little girl and take her away with him. The Christina Rossetti story reminded me of the nursery rhyme, and I made a quilt of both. Rosario Ferré interview in Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out by Donna Marie Perry (1993) External links Christina_Rossetti Christina Rossetti Category:Poets from England Category:Fantasy authors Category:Women authors from England Category:Hymnwriters from England Category:Musicians from England]] Category:Catholics from England Category:1830 births Category:1894 deaths Category:People from London