Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.

(Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet. Who has seen the wind? (Sing-Song) (l. 1-4). . . The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 2. R. W. Crump, ed. (1986) Louisiana State University ? Press.)

Spring's an expansive time: yet I don't trust
March with its peck of dust,
Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers,
Nor even May, whose flowers
One frost may wither thro' the sunless hours.

(Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet. Winter: My Secret (l. 23-27). . . The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 1. R. W. Crump, ed. (1979) Louisiana State University ? Press.)

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.

(Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet, lyricist. "Song: 'When I am Dead'," st. 1 (written 1848), published in Goblin Market, and Other Poems (1862).)

And all the winds go sighing,
For sweet things dying.

(Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet, lyricist. A Dirge.)

My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a watered shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;

(Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet. A Birthday (l. 1-6). . . The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 1. R. W. Crump, ed. (1979) Louisiana State University ? Press.)

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 Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet. Remember (l. 9-14). . . The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 1. R. W. Crump, ed. (1979) Louisiana State University ? Press.)

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

(Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet. Remember (l. 1-2). . . The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 1. R. W. Crump, ed. (1979) Louisiana State University ? Press.)

Passing away, saith the World, passing away:
Chances, beauty and youth sapped day by day:
Thy life never continueth in one stay.
Is the eye waxen dim, is the dark hair changing to gray
That hath won neither laurel nor bay?

(Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet. Old and New Year Ditties (l. 1-5). . . The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 1. R. W. Crump, ed. (1979) Louisiana State University ? Press.)

Hurt no living thing:
Ladybird, nor butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing,

(Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet. Hurt No Living Thing (Sing-Song) (l. 1-3). . . The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 2. R. W. Crump, ed. (1986) Louisiana State University ? Press.)

So unrecorded did it slip away,
So blind was I to see and to foresee,
So dull to mark the budding of my tree
That would not blossom yet for many a May.
If only I could recollect it, such
A day of days! I let it come and go
As traceless as a thaw of bygone snow;
It seemed to mean so little, meant so much;
If only now I could recall that touch,
First touch of hand in hand?Did one but know!

(Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet. Monna Innominata: The First Day (l. 5-14). . . The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 2. R. W. Crump, ed. (1986) Louisiana State University ? Press.)