Christina Georgina Rossetti

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““Ferry me across the water,
Do, boatman, do.”
“If you’ve a penny in your purse
I’ll ferry you.””
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)

“Hurt no living thing:
Ladybird, nor butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing,”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)

“Spin and die,
To live again as butterfly.”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)

“For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands.”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)

“Hush’d in and curtain’d with a blessed dearth
Of all that irk’d her from the hour of birth;
With stillness that is almost Paradise.
Darkness more clear than noonday holdeth her,”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)