Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth. – Christina Rossetti
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad. – Christina Rossetti

Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth. – Christina Rossetti
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad. – Christina Rossetti
In the bleak midwinter
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 midwinter,
Long ago. – 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. – Christina Rossetti