Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.
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The hope I dreamed of was a dream, Was but a dream; and now I wake, Exceeding comfortless, and worn, and old, For a dream’s sake.
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Birth: | 5th December, 1830 |
Death: | 29th December, 1894 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Poet |
Christina Georgina Rossetti was born in London, England. She was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She wrote the poems Goblin Market and Remember, and the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter. Rossetti was educated at home by her mother and father, who had her study religious works, classics, fairy tales and novels.
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