Rossetti Poems Quotes Flashcards
A Birthday quote about a singing bird.
“My heart is a singing bird / Whose nest is like a water’d shoot”
A Birthday quote about an apple tree.
“My heart is like an apple tree…bent with the thickest fruit”
A Birthday quote about love.
“My heart is gladder…because my love is come to me”
Goblin Market quote about the Goblin men.
“We must not look at the Goblin men, we must not buy their fruits”
Goblin Market quote about fruit.
“She clipped a precious golden lock…then sucked their fruit globes”
Goblin Market quote about eating.
“I ate and ate my fill yet my mouth waters still”
Goblin Market quote about friendship.
“There is no friend like a sister / in calm or stormy weather”
Twice quote about words.
“A woman’s words are weak…you should speak not I”
Twice quote about perception.
“With a critical eye you scanned / Then set it down”
Twice quote about wincing.
“it broke…but I did not wince”
Twice quote about love.
“Refine with fire its love / Purge thou dross away”
No Thank You John quote about love.
“I never said I loved you John”
No Thank You John quote about John.
“I dare say Meg or Moll would take pity on you”
No Thank You John quote about John.
“Let us strike hands as hearty friends”
From the Antique quote about women.
“it’s a weary life…doubly blank is a woman’s lot”
From the Antique quote about men.
“I wish and I wish I were a man”
From the Antique quote about the world.
“None would miss me in all the world”
Echo quote about the night.
“Come to me in the silence of the night”
Echo quote about dreaming.
“Oh dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet”
Echo quote about a door.
“Watch the slow door…lets out no more”
Soeur Louise quote about desire.
“I have desired and have been desired”
Soeur Louise quote about pleasure.
“Longing and love, pangs of perished pleasure” “diskindled fire”
Soeur Louise quote about a rose.
“My rose of life all gone to prickles”
In the Round Tower at Jhansi quote about intimacy.
“Close his arm about her now / Close her cheek to his”
In the Round Tower at Jhansi quote about wishing.
“I wish I could bear the pang alone”
In the Round Tower at Jhansi quote about pain.
“I is not pain / thus to die and kiss”
Maude Clare quote about Maude Clare.
“His bride was like a village maid / Maude Clare was like a Queen”
Maude Clare quote about a golden chain.
“Here’s half of the golden chain”
Maude Clare quote about loyalty.
“I’ll take what you spurn…For he’s my Lord for better or worse”
Shut Out quote about a door.
“The door was shut. I looked between / its iron bars”
Shut Out quote about a garden.
“My garden, mine”
Shut Out quote about a gate.
“A shadowless spirit kept the gate”
Shut Out quote about a wall.
“He took / mortar and stone to build a wall”
