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Song (1848)
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When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no ____ songs for me
sad
Plant thou no ____ at my head, Nor shady _____ tree
roses, cypress
And if thou wilt, _______ / And if thou wilt, ______
Remember, Forget
I shall not see the ______, / I shall not feel the ____, / I shall not hear the _______, / Sing on as if in pain
shadows, rain, nightingale
And dreaming through the ________ / That doth not rise nor set
Twilight
Haply I may _______, And haply may ______
Remember, forget
Remember (1849)
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Remember me when I am _____ away, / Gone far away into the ______ land
Gone, silent
When you can no longer _____ me by the hand
Hold
Nor I _____ turn to go, yet turning stay
half
Yet if you should _____ me for a while, / and afterward remember, do not _______
Forget, grieve
Better by far you should ______ and smile / Than that you should remember and be ______
Forget, sad
From the Antique (1854)
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“It’s a weary life, it is, she said: / Doubly _____ in a woman’s lot”
Blank
I _____ and I _____ I were a man / Or, better than any being, were not
wish
Were ______ at all in all the world, / Not a ____ and not a soul
Nothing, body
Still the world would ______ on the same
wag
None would _____ me in all the world
miss
Echo (1854)
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“Come to me in the _____ of the night”
silence
O memory, hope, love of ______ years
finished
O dream how ______, too _____, too bitter ______
Sweet
“Paradise, Where souls ______ of love abide and meet”
brimfull
Yet come to me in dreams, that I may _____ / My very life again tho’ cold in _____’
live, death
Shut Out (1856)
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“I looked between / Its ______ bars; and saw it lie / My _____, mine, beneath the ____“
Iron, garden, sky
“It had been mine, and it was _____”
Lost
“A shadowless _____ kept the gate”
spirit
“Let me have / Some buds to cheer my _____ state”
Outcast
“It [the spirit] _______ not”
“The spirit was _____”
Answered, silent
‘he took mortar and stone to build a ____; / He left no ______ great or small’
Wall, loophole
“So now I sit here quite ___”
Alone
“______ with tears…. Since my delightful _____ is gone”
Blinded, land
A Birthday (1857)
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My heart is like a _____ bird
Singing
My heart is like an apple tree, / Whose ______ are bent with ______ fruit
boughs, thickset
Because the _______ of my life / Is come, my ____ is come to me
Birthday, love
My heart is _____ than all these
Gladder
Winter: My Secret (1857)
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“My secret’s _____, and I won’t tell”
Mine
“Suppose there is no _____ after all”
Secret
“A veil, a cloak, and other wraps: / I cannot ______ to everyone who taps
Ope
“I wear my ______ for warmth”
Mask
“To be ______ at by every wind that blows”
Pecked
Maude Clare (1857)
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‘His bride was like a village _____/ Maude Clare was like a _____’
Maid, Queen
‘May Nell and you but live as ____’
True
‘My lord gazed long on _____ Maude Clare’
pale
‘Here’s my half of the _____ ______/ You wore about your _____’
Golden Chain, Neck
‘He strove to match her ______ with scorn, / He ______ in his place’
Scorn, faltered
'“Lady,” he said, - “Maude Clare,” He said, - and _____ his face’
hid
“Take my _____ of a ______ heart”
Share, fickle
“I ______ my hands thereof”
Wash
“For he’s my lord for ______ and worse, / And him I love Maude Clare”
better
“I’ll love him till he loves me _____, Me best of all Maude Clare’
Best
In the Round Tower at Jhansi (1857-8)
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‘Not a _____ in the world remained’
Hope
‘The swarming ______ wretches below / gained and gained and gained’
Howling
‘Young, strong, and so full of _____’
Life
‘Close the ____ to her brow’
Pistol
‘God ______ them this!’
Forgive
‘I wish I could ____ the _____ alone'
Bear, Pang
‘It is not ____ Thus to ____ and die’
Pain, Kiss
Up-Hill (1858)
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“Does the road _____ up-hill all the way? / Yes, to the very ____”
Wind, end
But is there for the _____ a resting place? / A _____ for when the slow dark hours begin
Night, roof
You cannot miss that ____
inn
Then must I ____, or call when just in sight? / They will not keep you _____ at that door'
Knock, standing
Shall I find comfort, travel-sore and weak? / Of _____ you shall find the _____
Labour, sum
Will there be ____ for me and all who seek?
Yea, ____ for all who come.
Beds
Goblin Market (1859)
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‘Morning and evening / _____ heard the goblins cry’
Maids
‘We _____ not look at goblin men, / We ____ not buy their fruits’
Bonus: Who says this?
must
Laura
Lizzie ‘_____ a dimpled finder / In each ear, shut eyes and ran’
Bonus: How does she differ to Laura?
thrust
This contrasts from Laura, who ‘chose to linger / wondering at each merchant man’
Laura ‘______ a precious golden lock’
clipp’d
‘She _____ and _____ and _____ the more / Fruits which that unknown orchard bore’
‘She ____ until her lips were sore’
suck’d
Laura says ‘I ____ and ____ my fill, / yet my mouth waters still’
ate
‘Golden head by golden head, / Like two _____ in one _____’
pigeons, nest
‘Lizzie with an open _____, / Laura in an absent _____’
heart, dream
Lizzie ‘sat up in a _____ yearning, / And gnash’d her teeth for _____ desire
passionate, baulked
Laura ‘_____ heard again the goblins cry’ and so she ‘dwindled… to swift _____’
never , decay
Laura ‘fell sick and ___ in her ___ prime’
died, gay
‘White and ___ Lizzie stood, / Like a lily in a pond’
golden
‘One may lead a ____ to water, / Twenty cannot make him ____’
horse, drink
‘For your sake I have _____ the ____, / And had to do with goblin merchant men’
braved, glen
'Laura _____ as from a dream, / Laugh’d in the innocent old way
awoke
‘For there is no _____ like a _____’
friend, sister
No Thank You, John (1860)
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I never said I ______ you, John
Loved
No _____ of mine made me your _____
fault, toast
Why will you _____ me with a face as wan / As shows from an ________ ghost
haunt, hour-old
I have no _____? Perhaps not.
heart
Let us strike hands as hearty _____; No more, no less
friends
Good Friday (1862)
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Am I a ______, and not a sheep
Stone
Not so the Sun and Moon / Which _____ their faces in a starless sky
hid
seek Thy sheep, true ________ of the flock
Shepherd
Turn and look once more / and _____ a rock
smite
Twice (1864)
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