1. Christina Rossetti
Christina Georgina Rossetti was a British poet, who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is best known for her long poem Goblin Market, her love poem "Remember", and for her Christmas poem "In the Bleak more..

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Christina Rossetti: For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you. #World

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Christina Rossetti: And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying. #Death and Dying

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Christina Rossetti: I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, Where? What? and turn away. #Facts

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Christina Rossetti: Obedience is the fruit of faith. #Dedication

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Christina Rossetti: She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. #Nuns

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Christina Rossetti: Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine. #Love

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Christina Rossetti: Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by. #Wind

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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 totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands. #Family

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Christina Rossetti: Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget. #Death and Dying

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Christina Rossetti: Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth... #Hope

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Christina Rossetti: I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on... #Dreams

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#Friends and Friendship

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