Rossetti

Question 1

Song

Answer 1

‘When I am dead my dearest shed no tears for me’
‘I shall not see shadows’
‘Haply I may remember, haply I may forget’

Question 2

Goblin Market

Answer 2

'Come buy our fruit'
'Pomegranates full and fine'
'Laura bow'd her head, Lizzie veiled her blushes'
'We must not look at goblin men'
'She suck'd their fruit globes'
'Twilight is not a good time for maidens'
'Do you not remember Jeanie'
'Eat me, drink me, love me'

Question 3

From the antique

Answer 3

‘It’s a weary life’
‘Doubly blank is a woman’s lot’
‘Not so much a grain of dust’
‘Not a body, not a soul’

Question 4

Soeur Louise

Answer 4

'I have desired and been desired'
'Dust and dying embers mock my fire'
'Oh vanities of vanities desire'
'Longing and love, pangs of perished pleasure'
'My garden plot turned to barren mire'

Question 5

Twice

Answer 5

‘I took my heart in my hand, said let me fall or stand’
‘You took my heart in your hand, with a critical eye scanned’
‘As you set it down it broke’

Question 6

Good Friday

Answer 6

‘Am I a stone and not a sheep’

‘Stand beneath thy cross and yet not weep’

Question 7

Shut out

Answer 7

‘The door was shut’
‘Behind the iron bars I saw it, my garden mine’
‘A shadow-less spirit kept the gate’
‘He took mortar and stone to build a wall’
‘My delightful land is gone’