Rossetti Quotes Flashcards

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‘When I am dead, My Dearest:’ death

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‘Plant thou no roses at my head’

- soul sleep, tone of acceptance, empowering

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‘Remember:’ death

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‘Gone far away into the silent land’

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‘Remember:’ grief

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‘You tell me of our future that you plann’d’

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‘From the Antique:’ gender

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‘Doubly blank is a woman’s lot’

‘I wish and I wish I were a man’

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‘From the Antique:’ depression

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‘Still the world would wag on the same’

‘None would miss me in all the world’

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‘Shut Out:’ depression

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‘I sit here quite alone / Blinded with tears’

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‘Shut Out:’ misuse of power

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‘He left no loophole great or small’

‘A shadowless spirit […] blank and unchanging like the grave’

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‘Shut Out:’ grief

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‘my delightful land is gone’

‘nought is left worth looking at’

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‘In the Round Tower at Jhansi:’ love

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‘I wish I could bear the pang for both’

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‘A Birthday:’ religious euphoria

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‘My heart is like an apple-tree, / whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit’
‘Carve it in doves and pomegranates’

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‘A Birthday:’ decadence

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‘Work it in gold and silver grapes’

‘Carve it in doves and pomegranates’

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‘Maude Clare:’ gender

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‘With lofty step and mien’
‘[Thomas’ father] was not so pale as you’
‘waded ankle-deep for lilies in the beck’

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‘Maude Clare:’ love

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‘The lilies are budding now’
‘Here’s my half of the faded leaves’
‘Take my share of a fickle heart’
‘I’ll love him till he loves me best’

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‘Up-Hill:’ religious doubt

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‘Will there be beds for me and all who seek?’

call and response, uncertainty

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‘No, Thank You, John:’ gender

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‘Use your common sense.’
‘Don’t call me false, who owed not to be true’
‘I’ll wink at your untruth’

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‘Goblin Market:’ gender

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‘She suck’d until her lips were sore’
‘Twilight is not good for maidens’
‘Talk’d as modest maidens should’

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‘Goblin Market:’ redemption

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‘Eat me, drink me, love me’
‘For your sake I have braved the glen’
‘Pleasure past and anguish past’

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‘Goblin Market:’ religion

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‘She clipp’d a precious golden lock’
‘She dropp’d a tear more rare than pearl’
‘Lizzie stood, like a lily in a flood’

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‘Twice:’ betrayal

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‘As you set it down it broke’

‘This contemned of a man’

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‘Twice:’ heavenly love

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‘Now let Thy judgement stand’
‘Refine with fire its gold’
‘shall not question much’

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‘Winter: My Secret:’ humour

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‘My secret’s mine, and I won’t tell’

‘Only just my fun’

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‘Winter: My Secret:’ external pressure

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‘Come bounding and surrounding me’

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‘Soeur Louise de la Misercorde:’ sexuality

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‘I have been desired’
‘Pangs of perished pleasure’
‘Oh vanity of vanities, desire!’

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‘Soeur Louise de la Misercorde:’ loss

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‘Dust and dying embers mock my fire’
‘My rose of life gone all to prickles’
‘my garden plot to barren mire’