{"author":"Christina Rossetti","author_id":"Christina+Rossetti","total_quotes":37,"quotes":[{"text":"Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.","author":"Christina Rossetti","tags":["smile","better","remember "],"id":283,"author_id":"Christina+Rossetti"},{"text":"Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes  work never begun.","author":"Christina Rossetti","tags":["women","s","movement"],"id":7335,"author_id":"Christina+Rossetti"},{"text":"For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge, I live alone, I look to die alone: Yet sometimes, when a wind sighs through the sedge, Ghosts of my buried years, and friends come back, My heart goes sighing after swallows flown On sometime summer's unreturning track.","author":"Christina Rossetti","tags":["friendship","poetry","solitude"],"id":38184,"author_id":"Christina+Rossetti"},{"text":"Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams.","author":"Christina Rossetti","tags":["art","change","hope","longing","love","past","was"],"id":40291,"author_id":"Christina+Rossetti"},{"text":"Then a hundred sad voices lifted a wail,And a hundred glad voices piped on the gale:'Time is short, life is short,' they took up the tale: 'Life is sweet, love is sweet, use to-day while you may;Love is sweet, and to-morrow may fail; Love is sweet, use to-day.","author":"Christina Rossetti","tags":["life","love","poem","time"],"id":114743,"author_id":"Christina+Rossetti"},{"text":"My heart is like a singing bird.","author":"Christina Rossetti","tags":["heart","bird","singing "],"id":125281,"author_id":"Christina+Rossetti"},{"text":"Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand,Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you planned: Only remember me; you understandIt will be late to counsel then or pray.Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leaveA vestige of the thoughts that once I had,Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.","author":"Christina Rossetti","tags":["death-of-a-loved-one","grief","life-and-death","love","memories","poetry","remember"],"id":129981,"author_id":"Christina+Rossetti"},{"text":"Love shall be our token love be yours and love be mine.","author":"Christina Rossetti","tags":["love","mine","token "],"id":131103,"author_id":"Christina+Rossetti"},{"text":"Who shall tell the lady's griefWhen her Cat was past relief?Who shall number the hot tearsShed o'er her, beloved for years?Who shall say the dark dismayWhich her dying caused that day?","author":"Christina Rossetti","tags":["cat","cats","death","death-of-a-pet","pet","pets"],"id":138017,"author_id":"Christina+Rossetti"},{"text":"In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago. ","author":"Christina Rossetti","tags":["hymn","poetry"],"id":161231,"author_id":"Christina+Rossetti"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":37,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}