rossetti quotes

Question 1

“It’s a _____ life, it is she said” (From The Antique)

Answer 1

weary

Question 2

“Doubly _____ is a woman’s lot/I wish and I wish I were a man” (From The Antique)

Answer 2

blank

Question 3

“Were ______ at all in the world/Not a body and not a soul” (From the Antique)

Answer 3

nothing

Question 4

“Still the seasons go and come/ _______ bloom as in days of old” (From The Antique)

Answer 4

blossoms

Question 5

“Skene looked at his ____________” (ITRTAJ)

Answer 5

pale young wife

Question 6

“Young, strong, and __________/The agony struck them ________” (ITRTAJ)

Answer 6

so full of life/dumb

Question 7

“Close the pistol to her brow/_____________” (ITRTAJ)

Answer 7

God forgive them this!

Question 8

“I wish I could bear the ______ for both” (ITRTAJ)

Answer 8

pang

Question 9

“His bride was like a _________/ Maude Clare was like a ________” (Maude Clare)

Answer 9

village maid/Queen

Question 10

“But he was not so pale as you/Nor I so _________” (Maude Clare)

Answer 10

pale as Nell

Question 11

“With feet amongst lily leaves/The ____________ now.” (Maude Clare)

Answer 11

lilies are budding

Question 12

“Take my share of a _______/ Mine of a _______ love” (Maude Clare)

Answer 12

fickle heart/paltry

Question 13

“I never _________ John? Why will you _____ day by day,” (NTYJ)

Answer 13

said I loved you/tease

Question 14

“I dare say _________ would take/pity upon you” (NTYJ)

Answer 14

Meg or Moll

Question 15

“I have no _____? Perhaps I have not/But then you’re ____________” (NTYJ)

Answer 15

heart/mad to take offence

Question 16

“Let’s mar our _____________ no more/ Song birds of passage _________” (NTYJ)

Answer 16

pleasant days/days of youth

Question 17

“I’d rather ____________/ Than answer “Yes” to you” (NTYJ)

Answer 17

answer “No” to fifty Johns

Question 18

“Remember me when I am ______/Gone far away into the _________” (Remember)

Answer 18

gone away/silent land

Question 19

“And afterwards remember ________” (Remember)

Answer 19

do not grieve

Question 20

“Better by far you should __________/Than that you should remember ________” (Remember)

Answer 20

forget and smile/and be sad

Question 21

“The door was shut. I looked between its ________: and saw it lie, my garden, mine, beneath the sky” (Shut Out)

Answer 21

iron bars

Question 22

“A _____________ kept the gate/Blank and _________ like the grave” (Shut Out)

Answer 22

shadowless spirit/unchanging

Question 23

“He left no loophole great or small/Through which my _________ eyes might look” (Shut Out)

Answer 23

straining

Question 24

“I have desired and I have __________” (SLDAM)

Answer 24

been desired

Question 25

“Oh vanity of vanities, ________” (SLDAM)

Answer 25

desire

Question 26

“Oh death-struck love, oh _______________” (SLDAM)

Answer 26

disenkindled fire

Question 27

“When I am dead, my dearest/Sing ______________” (SWIAD)

Answer 27

no sad songs for me

Question 28

“And if thou wilt remember/And if thou ___________” (SWIAD)

Answer 28

wilt forget

Question 29

“I shall not hear the nightingale/Sing on, _________” (SWIAD)

Answer 29

as if in pain

Question 30

“Haply I may remember/And _____________” (SWIAD)

Answer 30

haply may I forget

Question 31

“I took my heart in my hand/(_______________)” (Twice)

Answer 31

O my love, O my love

Question 32

“As you set it down it broke–__________ wince” (Twice)

Answer 32

Broke, but I did not

Question 33

“I take my heart in my hand/___________” (Twice)

Answer 33

O my God, O my God

Question 34

“Smile Thou and I shall sing/But shall not ___________” (Twice)

Answer 34

question much

Question 35

“Does the road wind up-hill _________?/Yes to the very end” (Uphill)

Answer 35

all the way

Question 36

“May not the ___________ from my face?/You cannot miss that ____” (Uphill)

Answer 36

darkness hide it/inn

Question 37

“Will there be beds for me and ________/Yea beds for ______” (Uphill)

Answer 37

all who seek/all who come

Question 38

“I tell my secret? No indeed not I/Perhaps ________________?” (WMS)

Answer 38

some day, who knows

Question 39

“Today’s a _______ day, a __________ day” (WMS)

Answer 39

nipping/biting

Question 40

“Come _________ and surrounding me, come buffeting, ___________ me” (WMS)

Answer 40

bounding/surrounding

Question 41

“Spring’s an expansive time: ___________” (WMS)

Answer 41

yet I don’t trust

Question 42

DROWSY BIRDS AND GOLDEN FRUIT

Answer 42

WMS

Question 43

“Perhaps my secret I may say, ___________” WMS

Answer 43

or you may guess

Question 44

“My heart is like a singing bird/Whose nest is in a _____________” (Birthday)

Answer 44

watered shoot

Question 45

“Raise me in a dais of silk and down/Hang it with __________” (Birthday)

Answer 45

vair and purple dyes

Question 46

“Come to me in the silence of _______/Come to me in the speaking __________” (Echo)

Answer 46

the night/silence of a dream

Question 47

“Watch the slow door/That opening ___________” (Echo)

Answer 47

letting in, lets out no more

Question 48

“Speak low, lean low/As long ago ____________” (Echo)

Answer 48

my love, how long ago