Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth, Love is … - Christina Rossetti

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Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth,
Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth,
Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white,
Love is like a lovely rose, the world’s delight.
Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth,
But the rose with all its thorns excels them both.

Christina Rossetti

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About Christina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 – December 29, 1894) was an English poet and the sister of artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

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Birth Name: Christina Georgina Rossetti

Alternative Names: Christina G. Rossetti • Christina G. • Christina Georgina; Rosetti • Rossetti • Christina (Georgina) Rossetti

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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.

Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land.

All earth’s full rivers can not fill
The sea that drinking thirsteth still.

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