Quote#Love
Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth
Quote byChristina Rossetti · 1830–1894
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Hope is like a Harebell; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)..
English (original)
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
More from Christina Rossetti
Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land.
The birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.
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;
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.
Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.
Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.