Christina Rossetti Quotes on Nature
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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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When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget.
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In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago.
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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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All earth's full rivers can not fill The sea that drinking thirsteth still.
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One day in the country Is worth a month in town.