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Christmas hath a beauty ... lovelier than the world can show.

Christina Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti
Age: 64 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 5
Died: 1894
Died: December 29
Hymnwriter
Poet
Writer
London
England
Christina Georgina Rossetti
Christina G. Rossetti
Lovelier
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Christmas
Beauty
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Shows
World

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Where innocent bright-eyes daisies are With blades of grass between, Each daisy stands up like a star Out of a sky of green.
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The lilies say: Behold how we Preach without words of purity.
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Let bygones be bygones.
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Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.
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We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?
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The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.
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I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.
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A pin has a head, but has no hair
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Rest, rest at the heart's core . . . till joy shall overtake.
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My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.
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Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine Love was born at Christmas Star and angels gave the sign.
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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 sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
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All earth's full rivers can not fillThe sea that drinking thirsteth still.
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Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.
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The downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back.
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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.
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Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.
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Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep.
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Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.
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What is pink? A rose is pink By the fountain's brink.
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