Christina Rossetti Quotes About Grief

“A Better Resurrection,” in Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862 first edition), Devotional Pieces, printed page 137 / scan leaf 153. “My life is in the falling leaf: O Jesus, quicken me” closes the first stanza as a direct Christian prayer for renewed life; the address to Jesus and resurrection frame are essential context and are not secularized into generic recovery advice.

“A Better Resurrection,” in Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862 first edition), Devotional Pieces, printed page 137 / scan leaf 153. The poem opens “I have no wit, no words, no tears” and develops grief and numbness through Christian devotional imagery before the stanza closes in prayer. This is literary/devotional expression, not a clinical description, diagnosis or treatment recommendation.

“Remember,” first published in Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862); Project Gutenberg #16950. The sonnet later softens this request by allowing compassionate forgetting rather than demanding perpetual grief.

Closing thought of Remember; Rossetti shifts from asking to be remembered toward permitting compassionate forgetting.

“Spring,” Project Gutenberg #16950. This is a lyric reflection on transience, not a literal biological generalization about all life.

“The First Spring Day,” Project Gutenberg #16950. The alternative 'world to come' makes the Christian eschatological dimension explicit.