Rossetti Quotes Flashcards
In the Round Tower at Jhansi (Indian Mutiny)
“Not a hope in the world remained”
“Skene looked at his pale young wife”
“Young, strong, and so full of life”
“I wish I could bear the pang for both.’/I wish I could bear the pang alone”
When I am Dead, My Dearest
“Sing no sad songs for me”
“And if thou wilt, remember,/And if thou wilt, forget”
“I shall not see the shadows,/I shall not feel the pain”
“Haply I may remember,/And haply I may forget”
Echo
“Come in the speaking silence of a dream”
“O memory, hope and love of finished years”
“O dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet”
“Pulse for pulse, breath for breath”
Shut Out
“The door was shut. I looked between/Its iron bars”
“It had been mine and it was lost”
“A shadowless spirit kept the gate,/Blank and unchanging like the grave”
“And good they are, but not the best;/And dear they are, but not so dear”
Up-Hill
“Does the road wind up-hill all the way?/Yes, to the very end”
“A roof for when the slow dark hours begin”
“They will not keep you standing at the door”
“Of labour you shall find the sum”
No, Thank You John
“You know I never loved you, John;/No fault of mine made me your toast”
“And pray don’t remain single for my sake/Who can’t perform the task”
“Let bygones be bygones:/Don’t call me false, who owed not to be true”
“Here’s friendship for you if you like; but love,/No, thank you, John”
Good Friday
“Am I a stone and not a sheep”
“Not so those women loved/Who with exceeding grief lamented thee”
“I, only I”
“turn and look once more/And smite a rock”
Goblin Market
“’We must not look at goblin men,/We must not buy their fruits:/Who knows upon what soil they fed/Their hungry, thirsty roots?”
“’[…]Their offers should not charm us,/Their evil gifts would harm us’”
“Twilight is not good for maidens”
“Cheek to cheek and breast to breast/Locked together in one rest”
“Poor Laura could not hear;/Longed to buy fruit to comfort her,/But feared to pay too dear”
“White and golden Lizzie stood,/Like a lily in a flood”
Twice
“Yet a woman’s words are weak:/You should speak, not I”
“As you set it down it broke”
“Yea, judge me now”
“Smile Thou and I shall sing,/But shall not question much”
Winter: My Secret
“I tell my secret? No indeed, not I”
“Only, my secret’s mine, and I won’t tell”
“You would not peck? I thank you for good will,/Believe, but leave the truth untested still”
“Perhaps my secret I may say,/Or you may guess”
Soeur Louise de la Misericorde
“I have desired, and I have been desired;/ But now the days are over of desire”
“pangs of perished pleasure”
“Oh vanity of vanities, desire!”
“Stunting my hope which might have strained up higher”
From the Antique (“It’s a weary life, it is, she said”)
“Doubly blank is a woman’s lot”
“I wish and I wish I were a man”
“Still the world would wag on the same”
“None would miss me in all the world”
A Birthday
“My heart is gladder than all of these/Because my love is come to me”
“Raise me a dais of silk and down”
“Work it in gold and silver grapes,/In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys”
“Because the birthday of my life/Is come, my love is come to me”
Remember
“Remember me when I am gone away,/Gone far away into the silent land”
“You tell me of our future that you planned”
“Yet if you should forget me for a while/And afterwards remember, do not grieve”
“Better by far you should forget and smile/Than that you should remember and be sad”
Maude Clare
“His bride was like a village maid,/Maude Clare was like a queen”
“Here’s my half of the golden chain/You wore about your neck”
“Take it or leave it as you will,/I wash my hands thereof”
“I’ll love him till he loves me best,/Me best of all Maude Clare”
