Rossetti poem quotations Flashcards

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Remember ‘Better by far….

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You should forget and smile/ Than that you should remember and be sad.”

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Echo ‘Come to….

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me in the silence of the night’

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Shut Out

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“The door was shut”

“Blank and unchanging like the grave”

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In the Round Tower at Jhansi

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“Not a hope in the world remained”

“God forgive them this”

“ ‘Will it hurt much?’ ‘No, mine own:’ “

“Thus to kiss and die”

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Maude Clare ‘His bride…

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was like a village maid/ Maude Clare was like a queen.”

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From the Antique ‘I wish…

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And I wish I were a man’

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No, thank you, John

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“I never said I loved you, John:”

“Haunt me with a face as wan”

“Use your common sense”

“Let bygones be bygones”

“No, thank you, John”

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Goblin Market

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“”Come buy our orchard fruits,””

“You should not peep at goblin market”

“sugar baited words”

“Her hair grew thin and grey”

“scratched, pinched, kicked, knocked”

“when both were wives / With children of their own”

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Song “When I. ‘Plant thou…

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no roses at my head ‘

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Song “When I. ‘And if thou wilt….

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remember, / And if thou wilt, forget’

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Song “When I. ‘Haply…

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I may remember / And haply mag forget’

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Remember ‘Remember me when I am gone…

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Gone far away into the silent land’

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Remember ‘You….

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tell me of our future that you planned’

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From the A ‘ Still the….

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world would wag on the same’

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From the A ‘How much…less

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less would care or weep / I should be nothing’

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Echo ‘Pulse…

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for pulse, breath for breath’

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Echo ‘Watch the slow door…

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/That opening, letting in, let’s out no more ‘

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A Birthday ‘My heart…

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is like a singing bird’

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A Birthday ‘My heart….

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is gladder than all these / Because my love has come to me’

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A Birthday ‘Carve it…

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in doves and pomegranates’

‘Gold and silver grapes’

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MC ‘gazed long….

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on pale Maude Clare / or ever he kissed the bride.’

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MC ‘We waded…

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ankle-deep / for lilies in the beck’

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Up Hill ‘Does the…

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road wind uphill all the way?’

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Up hill ‘They….

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will not keep you standing at that door’

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UpHill ‘Beds…

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for all who come’

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Twice ‘O my

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love, Oh my love’

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Twice ‘With a…

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critical eye you scanned…’

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Twice ‘Smile thou…

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and I shall sing / But not question much’

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Winter: My Secret ‘I tell my secret?…

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No indeed, not I’

30
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Winter examples of nature:

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‘a nipping day’

“peck of dust”

‘languid summer day’

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Soeur ‘Now dust…

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and dying embers mock my fire’

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Soeur ‘Oh vanity….

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of vanities, desire!’

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Soeur ‘My rose…

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of life gone all to prickles’