Rossetti quotes

GM their offers should not charm us

their evil gifts would harm us

GM come buy

come buy

GM you have much gold

upon your head

GM her tree of life

drooped from the root

GM Till Laura

dwindling, seemed knocking at deaths door

GM clawed with their nails,

barking, mewing, hissing, mocking

GM eat me,

drink me, love me

GM Lizzie, Lizzie, have you

tasted for my sake the fruit forbidden?

GM afterwards, when

both were wives with children of their own

GM For there is

no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather

Avery - place in society

Rossetti’s poems are uncompromising in their analysis of women’s place in society

Avery - saying no

Rossetti asserts a woman’s right to say no

Reid

human love is sacrificed for a desired relationship with God

GM Morden

an allegory of sexual transgression

when I am dead: plant thou

no roses on my head

when I am dead: haply I may remember

and haply may forget

Remember: better by far you should forget and smile

than that you should remember and be sad

From the antique: I wish and I wish

I were a man

from the antique: still the

world would wag the same

shut out: a shadowless

spirit kept the gate

shut out: he left no

loophole great or small

shut out: so now I sit here

quite alone blinded with tears

a birthday: my heart

is like a singing bird

a birthday: because the birthday of

my life is come, my love is come to me

MC: his bride was like

a village maid, MC was like a queen

MC: I’ll love him till

he loves me best, me best of all MC

Uphill: yea

beds for all who come

Uphill: does this road

wind uphill all the way

No ty John: I never said

I loved you John

No ty John: i have no heart?

perhaps I have not

No ty John: let us

strike hands as hearty friends

twice: yet a woman’s

words are weak