A Sunday Morning Tragedy

Question 1

Flower

Answer 1

I bore a daughter flower-fair

Question 2

Rare

Answer 2

I joyed to mother one so rare

Question 3

Men

Answer 3

Men looked and loved her as she grew

Question 4

Loved too well

Answer 4

She owned that she had loved to well

Question 5

Pleaded

Answer 5

I pleaded with him, pleaded sore

Question 6

Christindie

Answer 6

That is so scorned in christendie

Question 7

I’ll motherings

Answer 7

'’Tis meant to balk ill motherings

Ill-motherings! Why should they be

Question 8

Wind

Answer 8

And the wind whiffled wailfully

Question 9

Scandal

Answer 9

This scandal shall be slain

Question 10

Fruit

Answer 10

Untimely fruit

Question 11

Grave

Answer 11

And in my grave I now would be

Question 12

Amends

Answer 12

Right glad are we he makes amends, for never a sweeter bride to be

Question 13

Soul could flee

Answer 13

Christ how I wished my soul could flee

Question 14

Picotee

Answer 14

My bird - my flower - my picotee

Question 15

Felt for her

Answer 15

I’ve felt for her, and righted all

Question 16

Silent

Answer 16

There she lay - silent, breathless, dead

Question 17

Stone dead

Answer 17

Stone dead she lay - wronged, sinless she!

Question 18

Rosy red

Answer 18

Ghost white the heels once rosy red

Question 19

Death

Answer 19

Death had took her. Death took not me

Question 20

Colding face

Answer 20

I kissed her folding face and hair

Question 21

Punishment

Answer 21

My punishment I cannot bare, but pray god not to pity me