Souer Louise De La Misericorde

Question 1

What quotes link to the loss of desire in this poem?

Answer 1

’ I have desired, and have been desired, But now the days are over of desire’
‘Oh vanity of vanities, desire!’
‘Love’s deathbed, trickles, trickles, Drop by Drop, slowly, drop by drop of fire’.

Question 2

What quotes suggest mockery and a lack of mercy in this poem?

Answer 2

‘longing and love, pangs of a perished pleasure,
longing and love, a disenkindled fire’
‘Alas, my rose of life all gone to prickles’
‘‘turning my garden plot to barren mire; oh Death-struck love, oh disenkindled fire’