What would I give for a heart of flesh to warm me thro’,Instead of this heart of stone ice-cold whatever I do;Hard and cold and small, of all the hearts worst of all. What would I give for words, if only words would come;But now in its misery my...
PoetChristina Rossetti
Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember". She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in the UK: "In the Bleak Midwinter", later set by Gustav Holst and Harold Darke, and "Love Came Down at Christmas", also set by Darke and other composers. She was a sister of the artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and features in several of his paintings.