Porphyria's Lover Essay Quotes

Question 1

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Answer 1

“The rain set early in to-night, /The sullen wind was soon awake, /It tore the elm-tops down for spite, /And did its worst to vex the lake: /I listened with heart fit to break.”

Question 2

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Answer 2

“When no voice replied, /She put my arm about her waist, /And made her smooth white shoulder bare, /And all her yellow hair displaced, /And, stopping, made my cheek lie there”

Question 3

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Answer 3

“That moment she was mine, mine, fair, /Perfectly pure and good: I found/ A thing to do, and all her hair/ In one long yellow string I wound/ Three times her little throat around, / And strangled her.”

Question 4

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“No pain felt she; /I am quite sure she felt no pain. /As a shut bud that holds a bee, /I warily oped her lids: again/ Laughed the blue eyes without a stain.”

Question 5

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“The smiling rosy little head, /So glad it has its utmost will, /That all it scorned at once is fled,/ And I, its love, am gained instead! /Porphyria’s love: she guessed not how /Her darling one wish would be heard.”

Question 6

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Answer 6

“And thus we sit together now, /And all night long we have not stirred, /And yet God has not said a word!”