Christina Georgina Rossetti quotes

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the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a watered shoot;...
- MORE My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a watered shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
And all the winds go sighing,
For sweet things dying.
And all the winds go sighing,
For sweet things dying.
She gave up beauty in her tender youth,
Gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways;...
- MORE She gave up beauty in her tender youth,
Gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways;
She covered up her eyes lest they should gaze
On vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
I might show facts as plain as day:
But, since your eyes are blind, you'd say,
"Where? What?" and turn away.
- MORE I might show facts as plain as day:
But, since your eyes are blind, you'd say,
"Where? What?" and turn away.
Yet come to me in dreams that I may live
My very life again though cold in death:...
- MORE Yet come to me in dreams that I may live
My very life again though cold in death:
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give
Pulse for pulse, breath for breath:
Speak low, lean low,
As long ago, my love, how long ago.
As a tree my sin stands
To darken all lands;
Death is the fruit it bore.
As a tree my sin stands
To darken all lands;
Death is the fruit it bore.
And my eyes are blue;
So ferry me across the water,...
- MORE And my eyes are blue;
So ferry me across the water,
Do, boatman, do!"

"Step into my ferry-boat,
Be they black or blue,
"Ferry me across the water,
Do, boatman, do."
"If you've a penny in your purse
I'll ferry you."
"Ferry me across the water,
Do, boatman, do."
"If you've a penny in your purse
I'll ferry you."
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