Rossetti Poems Quotes

Question 1

A Birthday quote about a singing bird.

Answer 1

“My heart is a singing bird / Whose nest is like a water’d shoot”

Question 2

A Birthday quote about an apple tree.

Answer 2

“My heart is like an apple tree…bent with the thickest fruit”

Question 3

A Birthday quote about love.

Answer 3

“My heart is gladder…because my love is come to me”

Question 4

Goblin Market quote about the Goblin men.

Answer 4

“We must not look at the Goblin men, we must not buy their fruits”

Question 5

Goblin Market quote about fruit.

Answer 5

“She clipped a precious golden lock…then sucked their fruit globes”

Question 6

Goblin Market quote about eating.

Answer 6

“I ate and ate my fill yet my mouth waters still”

Question 7

Goblin Market quote about friendship.

Answer 7

“There is no friend like a sister / in calm or stormy weather”

Question 8

Twice quote about words.

Answer 8

“A woman’s words are weak…you should speak not I”

Question 9

Twice quote about perception.

Answer 9

“With a critical eye you scanned / Then set it down”

Question 10

Twice quote about wincing.

Answer 10

“it broke…but I did not wince”

Question 11

Twice quote about love.

Answer 11

“Refine with fire its love / Purge thou dross away”

Question 12

No Thank You John quote about love.

Answer 12

“I never said I loved you John”

Question 13

No Thank You John quote about John.

Answer 13

“I dare say Meg or Moll would take pity on you”

Question 14

No Thank You John quote about John.

Answer 14

“Let us strike hands as hearty friends”

Question 15

From the Antique quote about women.

Answer 15

“it’s a weary life…doubly blank is a woman’s lot”

Question 16

From the Antique quote about men.

Answer 16

“I wish and I wish I were a man”

Question 17

From the Antique quote about the world.

Answer 17

“None would miss me in all the world”

Question 18

Echo quote about the night.

Answer 18

“Come to me in the silence of the night”

Question 19

Echo quote about dreaming.

Answer 19

“Oh dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet”

Question 20

Echo quote about a door.

Answer 20

“Watch the slow door…lets out no more”

Question 21

Soeur Louise quote about desire.

Answer 21

“I have desired and have been desired”

Question 22

Soeur Louise quote about pleasure.

Answer 22

“Longing and love, pangs of perished pleasure” “diskindled fire”

Question 23

Soeur Louise quote about a rose.

Answer 23

“My rose of life all gone to prickles”

Question 24

In the Round Tower at Jhansi quote about intimacy.

Answer 24

“Close his arm about her now / Close her cheek to his”

Question 25

In the Round Tower at Jhansi quote about wishing.

Answer 25

“I wish I could bear the pang alone”

Question 26

In the Round Tower at Jhansi quote about pain.

Answer 26

“I is not pain / thus to die and kiss”

Question 27

Maude Clare quote about Maude Clare.

Answer 27

“His bride was like a village maid / Maude Clare was like a Queen”

Question 28

Maude Clare quote about a golden chain.

Answer 28

“Here’s half of the golden chain”

Question 29

Maude Clare quote about loyalty.

Answer 29

“I’ll take what you spurn…For he’s my Lord for better or worse”

Question 30

Shut Out quote about a door.

Answer 30

“The door was shut. I looked between / its iron bars”

Question 31

Shut Out quote about a garden.

Answer 31

“My garden, mine”

Question 32

Shut Out quote about a gate.

Answer 32

“A shadowless spirit kept the gate”

Question 33

Shut Out quote about a wall.

Answer 33

“He took / mortar and stone to build a wall”