Isabella Flashcards
“meek” “wild”
“when passion is both meek and wild”
“love and”
“love and misery”
“lusty” “June’s” “caress”
“Like a lusty flower in June’s caress”
‘little’ ‘sweet’ ‘bitterness’
‘The little sweet does kill much bitterness’
‘juice’ ‘flowers’ ‘poison’
‘There is richest juice in poison flowers
‘brothers’ ‘dwelt’
‘With her two brothers, this fair lady dwelt’
‘hand’ ‘torched’ ‘mines’ ‘noisy’
‘And for them many a weary hand did swelt in torched mines and noisy factories’
‘seal’ ‘bark’ ‘darts’
‘The seal on the cold ice with piteous bark lay full of darts’
‘seal’ ‘bark’ ‘darts’
‘The seal on the cold ice with piteous bark lay full of darts’
‘ignorant’ ‘wheel’
‘Half-ignorant, they turned an easy wheel’
‘red’ ‘account’
‘Red-lined accounts’
‘plan’ ‘coax’ ‘degrees’ ‘noble’
‘Twas their plan to coax her by degrees to some high noble and his olive-trees’
‘basil’ ‘tears’ ‘wet’
‘Set sweet basil, which her tears kept ever wet’
‘pined’ ‘forlorn’
‘And so she pined, and died forlorn’
‘skirts’ ‘human’
‘Skirts of human nature dwelling’
‘surest’ ‘youngster’ ‘crime’ ‘atone’
‘They fixed upon the surest way to make the youngster for his crime atone’
‘kill’
To kill Lorenzo’
‘Lorenzo’ ‘courteously’
‘Lorenzo, courteously as he was wont’
‘went’ ‘chanted’
‘As he went she chanted merrily’
‘Autumn’ ‘eves’ ‘breath’ ‘Winter’
‘In the mid days of Autumn, on their eves the breath of Winter comes from far away’
‘gradual’ ‘decay’ ‘beauty’
‘Sweet Isabel by gradual decay from beauty fell’
‘dreams’ ‘groaned’ ‘shroud’
‘Every night in dreams they groaned aloud to see their sister in her snowy shroud’
‘couch’ ‘Lorenzo’ ‘wept’
‘At her couch’s foot Lorenzo stood, and wept’
fair isabel, poor simple isabel
- foreshadowing
- adjective - feel sorry for her
- she has no power
