Christina Georgina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) was a poetess, born in London, sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and of kindred temper with her brother, but with distinct qualities of her own. Her first volume, called the "Goblin-Market," contains a number of very beautiful short poems. She exhibits, along with a sense of humour, a rare pathos, which, as Professor Saintsbury remarks, often "blends with or passes into the utterance of religious awe, unstained and unweakened by any craven fear".

Wisdom & Quotes

• When I am dead, my dearest,

Sing no sad songs for me.
- Song

• Who has seen the wind?

Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads
The wind is passing by.
- Sing-Song

Thomas Edward Brown

Nearby pages
Christine Nilsson, Christmas, Christology, Christoph Hansteen, Christoph Martin Wieland