DEATH Flashcards
‘I wish and I wish I were a man….’
‘or better than any being, were not’- From the Antique
‘When i am dead….’
‘My dearest, sing no sad songs for me’ - Song
‘Young, strong and so full of life….’
‘the agony struck them dumb’ - In the Round Tower at Jhansi
‘It is not pain….’
‘thus to kiss and die. One kiss more - and yet one again - Good bye’ - In the Round Tower at Jhansi
‘Yet come to me in dreams that i may live…’
‘My very life again through cold in dead’ - Echo
‘Come to me in dreams that I may give…’
‘pulse for pulse, breath for breath’ - Echo
‘Remember me when i…’
‘am gone away, gone far away into the silent land’ - Remember
‘Better by far that you should forget…’
‘and smile, Than that you remember and be sad’ - Remember
‘Resignation to a life of…’
‘anonymity and obscurity was not in her nature’ - Morden
“Rossetti’s genius was essentially sombre….’
…or it wrote itself at least on a dark background of gloom” - Arthur Symons
‘I feel at home among….’
‘anxieties and depressions’ - Rossetti