Christina Rossetti
Full Name: Christina Georgina Rossetti
AKA: Wrote under the pseudonym Ellen Alleyne
Birthdate: December 5, 1830
Birthplace: London, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: December 29, 1894
Occupation: Poet
Profile: Best known for
Goblin Market.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Rossetti
Number of Quotes: 2
For one man is my world of all the men
This wide world holds; O love, my world is you.
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these,
Because my love is come to me.
Raise me a dais of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
Last on Earth
