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The lilies say: Behold how we Preach without words of purity.
Christina Rossetti
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Christina Rossetti
Age: 64 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 5
Died: 1894
Died: December 29
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London
England
Christina Georgina Rossetti
Christina G. Rossetti
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She cried, Laura, up the garden, Did you miss me? Come and kiss me. Never mind my bruises, Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices Squeezed from goblin fruits for you, Goblin pulp and goblin dew. Eat me, drink me, love me Laura, make much of me For your sake I have braved the glen And had to do with goblin merchant men.
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Not as she is, but as she fills his dream
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And all winds go sighing For sweet things dying.
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The downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back.
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Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.
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To her whose heart is my heart's quiet home, To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome.
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Let bygones be bygones.
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What is green? The grass is green, With small flowers between. What is violet? Clouds are violet In the summer twilight. What is orange? Why, an orange, Just an orange!
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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 totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
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When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me
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Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.
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Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.
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