Rossetti Quotes

Question 1

Winter: My Secret

Answer 1

“My secrets mine, and I won’t tell”
“A veil, a cloak, and other wraps”
“…not too much sun nor too much cloud”
“Perhaps my secret I may say or you may guess”

Question 2

Maude Clare

Answer 2

“My lord was pale with inward strife”
“Gazed long on pale Maude Clare”
“And what you leave I’ll take”

Question 3

In The Round Tower At Jhansi

Answer 3

“Thus to kiss and die”
“I wish I could bear the pang for both”
“Not a hope in the world remained”
“Agony struck them dumb”

Question 4

A Birthday

Answer 4

“My heart is like a singing bird”

“My love is come to me”

Question 5

Sœur Louise De La Miséricorde

Answer 5

“I have desired and I have been desired”
“Longing and love”
“Pangs of a perished pleasure”
“The days are over of desire”
“Oh vanity of vanities desire!”
“My rose of life gone all to prickles”

Question 6

No, Thank You John

Answer 6

“I never loved you John”
“You know I never loved you”
“Here’s friendship for you if you like”
“I have no heart? - perhaps I have not”

Question 7

Uphill

Answer 7

“Beds for all who come”
“Does the road wind up-hill all the way?”
“Shall i meet other wayfarers at night”
“Of labour you shall find the sum”

Question 8

Goblin Market

Answer 8

“Come buy, come buy”
“Dwindled and grew grey”
“Seemed knocking at death’s door”

Question 9

Twice

Answer 9

“Woman’s words are weak”
“I shall not die, but live”
“All that I have I bring”