Frases de Christina Rossetti
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Christina Rossetti
Data de nascimento: 5. Dezembro 1830
Data de falecimento: 29. Dezembro 1894
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Christina Georgina Rossetti foi uma poetisa inglesa de origem italiana, irmã do pintor Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti e Maria Francesca Rossetti.
Seu pai, Gabriele Rossetti, era um poeta italiano e refugiado político do Reino das Duas Sicílias, sua mãe, Frances Polidori, era irmã de John William Polidori, amigo e médico de Byron.
Citações Christina Rossetti
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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.
I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on, as if in pain:
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.“
— Christina Rossetti, Complete Poems
„Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang
When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?“
— Christina Rossetti, Poems of Christina Rossetti
„Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more, day by day,
You tell me of our future that you planned:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.“
— Christina Rossetti, Complete Poems
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„Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad“
— Christina Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelite Poetry: An Anthology
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„I looked for that which is not, nor can be,
And hope deferred made my heart sick in truth
But years must pass before a hope of youth
Is resigned utterly.
I watched and waited with a steadfast will:
And though the object seemed to flee away
That I so longed for, ever day by day
I watched and waited still.
Sometimes I said: This thing shall be no more;
My expectation wearies and shall cease;
I will resign it now and be at peace:
Yet never gave it o'er.
Sometimes I said: It is an empty name
I long for; to a name why should I give
The peace of all the days I have to live?--
Yet gave it all the same.
Alas, thou foolish one! alike unfit
For healthy joy and salutary pain:
Thou knowest the chase useless, and again
Turnest to follow it.“
— Christina Rossetti, Complete Poems
„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, The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti
