Christina Rossetti

"Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one thank."

"All others are outside myself;I lock my door and bar them out The turmoil, tedium, gad-about. I lock my door upon myself,And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?If I could once lay down myself,And start self-purged upon the race That all must run ! Death runs apace."

"Where there are no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank."

"Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake."

"Promise me no promises, So will I not promise you: Keep we both our liberties, Never false and never true: Let us hold the die uncast, Free to come as free to go: For I cannot know your past, And of mine what can you know?"

"He feeds upon her face by day and night,And she with true kind eyes looks back on him,Fair as the moon and joyful as the light:Not wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim;Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;Not as she is, but as she fills his dream."

"Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams."

"What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth."