Christina Rossetti Quotes

Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.

I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

Spring is a true reconstructionist.

See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burst at last from winter snows. Earth with heaven above rejoices.

Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains!

The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.

New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.

The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!

When the measured dance of the hours brings back the happy smile of spring, the buried dead is born again in the life-glance of the sun. The germs which perished to the eye within the cold breast of the earth spring up with joy in the bright realm of day.

Spring is when life's alive in everything.

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.

Spring is very energising to me.

The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.

In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providing hundreds of thousands of examples, specimens, and proofs of the supreme resurrection.