What is Rossetti?

  • (noun): English poet and painter who was a leader of the Pre-Raphaelites (1828-1882).
    Synonyms: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Famous quotes containing the word rossetti:

    “The city mouse lives in a house;—
    The garden mouse lives in a bower,”
    —Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)

    “The irresponsive silence of the land,
    The irresponsive sounding of the sea,
    Speak both one message of one sense to me:—
    ‘Aloof, aloof, we stand aloof,”
    —Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)

    “O love, my love! if I no more should see
    Thyself, nor on the earth the shadow of thee,
    Nor image of thine eyes in any spring,—
    How then should sound upon Life’s darkening slope
    The ground-whirl of the perished leaves of Hope,
    The wind of Death’s imperishable wing?”
    —Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)