All Christina Rossetti Poem Quotes

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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