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“How many children could say their home hosted the humblest and highest at the same time, on any given evening invaded by expatriates their father never hesitated to invite in? Through the back door he welcomed a bookseller, organ grinder, biscuit maker, vagrant macaroni man, and one called Galli who thought he was Christ. Through the front, disgraced Italian counts and generals made as officious entrances as a small house on Charlotte Street afforded.”

Poets Women Poets Christina Rossetti Victorian Society Pre Raphaelite 19th Century Poetry Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Book:The Dove Upon Her Branch: A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti

Source: The Dove Upon Her Branch: A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti

“One day in the country was worth a month in town and better than Christmas, her birthday, or even Papa saying she was like the moon risen at the full.”

Poets Women Poets Christina Rossetti Victorian Society Pre Raphaelite Victorian London 19th Century Poetry Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Book:The Dove Upon Her Branch: A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti

Source: The Dove Upon Her Branch: A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti

“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.”

Poetry Christina Rossetti Pre Raphaelite Gabriel Rossetti Lizzie Siddal

Author:Christina Rossetti

“Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: 'Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy”

Poetry Fantasy Poet Poem Myth Classic Poems Poets Fairytale Classics Fairytales Goblin Goblins Goblin Market Christina Rossetti Rossetti

Book:Goblin Market: A Tale of Two Sisters

Source: Goblin Market: A Tale of Two Sisters

“I have no heart? Perhaps I have not; / But then you're mad to take offense / That I don't give you what I have not got; / Use your own common sense.”

Poetry British Literature Christina Rossetti British Lit No Thank You John

Author:Christina Rossetti

“O cousin Kate, my love was true, Your love was writ in sand: If he had fooled not me but you, If you had stood where i stand, He'd not have won me with his love, Nor bought me with his land; I would have spit into his face And not have taken his hand. Yet I have a gift you have not got, And seem not like to get: For all your clothes and wedding-ring I've little doubt you fret. My fair-haired son, my shame, my pride, Cling closer, closer yet: Your father would give lands for one to wear his coronet”

Betrayal Christina Rossetti Cousin Kate

Author:Christina Rossetti

“People admired her poetry, but she knew there were plenty of readers who questioned it. How could she write brokenhearted verse if she never loved? Why did she compose so much about death if she knew little of life?”

Love Death Poetry Poet Broken Hearted Dante Club Matthew Pearl Christina Rossetti Dante Chamber

Book:The Dante Chamber

Source: The Dante Chamber