Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep.

- Christina Rossetti

I watched a rose-bud very long Brought on by dew and sun and shower, Waiting to see the perfect flower: Then when I thought it should be strong It op…

- Christina Rossetti

The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower

- Christina Rossetti

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

- Christina Rossetti

Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.

- Christina Rossetti

Why does the sea moan evermore? Shut out from heaven it makes its moan, It frets against the boundary shore; All earth's full rivers cannot fill The …

- Christina Rossetti

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 flow…

- Christina Rossetti

The downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back.

- Christina Rossetti

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one …

- Christina Rossetti