Quotes (reversed) Flashcards
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a watered shoot
A Birthday
My heart is gladder than all of these
Because my love is come to me
A Birthday
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me
A Birthday
Come to me in the silence of the night
Come in the speaking silence of a dream
Echo
O memory, hope, love of finished years
Echo
Oh dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet
Echo
Where souls brimfull of love abide and meet
Echo
Watch the slow door
That opening, letting in, lets out no more
Echo
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give
Pulse for pulse, breath for breath
Echo
It’s a weary life, it is, she said:
Doubly blank in a woman’s lot
From the Antique
Or, better than any being, were not
From the Antique
Still the world would wag on the same
From the Antique
Would wake and weary and fall asleep
From the Antique
Am I a stone, and not a sheep
Good Friday
I, only I
Good Friday
But seek Thy sheep, true Shepherd of the flock;
Greater than Moses, turn and look once more
And smite a rock
Good Friday
The swarming howling wretches below
Gained and gained and gained
In the Round Tower at Jhansi
I wish I could bear the pang for both
In the Round Tower at Jhansi
His bride was like a village maid,
Maude Clare was like a queen.
Maude Clare
My lord was pale with inward strife,
And Nell was pale with pride
Maude Clare
To bless the hearth, to bless the board,
To bless the marriage-bed.
Maude Clare
Take my share of a fickle heart
Maude Clare
I’ll love him till he loves me best,
Me best of all Maude Clare.
Maude Clare
Don’t call me false, who owed not to be true
No, Thank You, John
Here’s friendship for you if you like; but love, -
No, thank you, John.
No, Thank You, John
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land
Remember
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
Remember
The door was shut. I looked between
Its iron bars; and saw it lie,
My garden, mine, beneath the sky
Shut Out
It had been mine, and it was lost.
Shut Out
A shadowless spirit kept the gate
Shut Out
The spirit was silent; but he took
Mortar and stone to build a wall;
He left no loophole great or small
Through which my straining eyes might look
Shut Out
And good they are, but not the best
Shut Out
I have desired, and I have been desired
Soeur Lousie De La Misericorde
Where is the hire for which my life was hired?
Soeur Lousie De La Misericorde
Oh vanity of vanities, desire!
Soeur Louise De La Misericorde
Stunting my hope which might have strained up higher
Soeur Louise De La Misericorde
Oh death-struck love, oh disenkindled fire,
Oh vanity of vanities, desire!
Soeur Louise De La Misericorde
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget
Song: When I Am Dead
When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me
Song: When I Am Dead
I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
Song: When I Am Dead
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.
Song: When I Am Dead
Yet a woman’s words are weak;
You should speak, not I.
Twice
You took my heart in your hand
With a friendly smile,
With a critical eye you scanned
Twice
It is still unripe (her heart)
Twice
I take my heart in my hand,
O my God, O my God
Twice
All that I have I bring,
All that I am I give
(to God)
Twice
Shall I find comfort, travel-sore and weak?
Of labour you shall find the sum.
Up-Hill
Perhaps my secret I may say,
Or you may guess.
Winter: My Secret
Suppose there is no secret after all,
But only just my fun.
Winter: My Secret
I tell my secret? No indeed, not I
Winter: My Secret
