Remember me when I am gone away,Gone far away into the silent land;When you can no more hold me by the hand,Nor I half turn to go, yet turning stay.Remember me when no more day by dayYou tell me of our future that you plann’d:Only remember me; you understandIt will be late to counsel then or pray.Yet if you should forget me for a whileAnd afterwards remember, do not grieve:For if the darkness and corruption leaveA vestige of the thoughts that once I had,Better by far you should forget and smileThan that you should remember and be sad.
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Christina Rossetti quotes & passages
3 passages by Christina Rossetti, from Remember, A Birthday and Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems. Christina Rossetti died in 1894, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
My heart is like a singing birdWhose nest is in a water’d shoot;My heart is like an apple-treeWhose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;My heart is like a rainbow shellThat paddles in a halcyon sea;My heart is gladder than all these,Because my love is come to me.
Does the road wind up-hill all the way?Yes, to the very end.Will the day's journey take the whole long day?From morn to night, my friend.
Christina RossettiGoblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems, 1862 · Up-Hill
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