The Eve of St Agnes

Question 1

“A cruel man and impious thou art: sweet lady, let her pray, and sleep

Answer 1

And dream alone with her good angels…I deem thou canst not surely be the same that thou didst seem.”

Question 2

Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose,

Answer 2

Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart made purple riot

Question 3

She seem’d a splendid angel, newly drest, save wings, for heaven:

Answer 3

Porphyro grew faint: she knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint.

Question 4

Soon, trembling in her soft and chilly nest,

Answer 4

In sort of wakeful swoon, perplex’d she lay

Question 5

Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep: there was a painful change,

Answer 5

That nigh expell’d the blisses of her dream so pure and deep

Question 6

They glide, like phantoms, into the wide hall;

Answer 6

Like phantoms, to the iron porch, they glide;

Question 7

Stol’n to this paradise, and so entranced,

Answer 7

Porphyro gaz’d upon her empty dress

Question 8

How chang’d thou art!

Answer 8

How pallid, chill, and drear!

Question 9

And they are gone: ay, ages long ago

Answer 9

These lovers fled away into the storm.

Question 10

He arose ethereal, flush’d, and like a throbbing star seen mid the sapphire heaven’s deep repose;

Answer 10

Into her dream he melted, as the rose blendeth its odour with the violet