Rossetti quotes by poem ( 83 total quotes)

Winter: My Secret

• “I tell my secret? No indeed, not I”

• “you’re too curious: fie”

• “perhaps there’s none…but only just my fun

• “a veil, a cloak and other wraps / I cannot ope to everyone who taps”

• “perhaps some languid summer day”

• “perhaps my secret I may say / or you may guess”

A Birthday

• “My heart is like a singing bird”

• “my heart is like a rainbow shell / that paddles in a halycon sea”

• “my heart is gladder than all these / because my love is come to me”

• “a dais of silk and down”

• “Raise me” - “Carve me” - “Work it”

• “peacock with a hundred eyes”

• “silver fleur-de-lys”

• “birthday of my life”

Maude Clare

• “Out of the church she followed them”

• “His bride was like a village maid / Maude Clare was like a queen”

• “Your father thirty years ago / had just your tale to tell”

• “My lord gazed long on pale Maude Clare / Or ever he kissed the bride”

• “Here’s my half of the golden chain”

• “we waded ankle-deep / for lilies in the beck”

• “the lilies are budding now”

• “ “Lady,” he said - “Maude Clare,” he said - / “Maude Clare,” - and hid his face”

• “My share of a fickle heart”

• “and what you leave…I’ll take”

• “I never guessed you love my Lord”

• “You should have parted us in the church / Or kept silene evermore”

“No Thank You John”

• “I never said I loved you John”

• “You know I never loved you John”

• “don’t remain single for my sake / Who can’t perform the task”

• “I have no heart? Perhaps I have not”

• “Don’t call me false who owed not to be true”

• “Here’s friendhsip for you if you like; but love, - / No, thank you, John”

From the Antique

• It’s a weary life

• “I wish and I wish I were a man / or, better than any being, were not”

• "Doubly blank in a woman’s lot”

Good Friday

• Am I a stone and not a sheep

• I, only I

• yet give not o’er / but seek thy sheep

Uphill

• “you cannot miss that inn”

• “Shall I find comfort, travel-sore and weak?”

• Yea, “beds for all who come”

Song: When I am dead, my dearest

• “Sing no sad songs for me

• Be the green grass above me

• and if thou wilt, remember, / and if thou wilt, forget

• haply i may remember, / and haply may forget

Remember

• Remember me when I am gone away

• when you can no more hold me by the hand

• remember me when no more day by day / you tell me of our future that you plann’d

• it will be late to counsel then or pray

• yet if you should forget me for a while / and afterwards remember, do not grieve

• better by far you should forget and smile / than that you should remember and be sad

In the Round Tower

• Not a hope in the world remained

• his pale young wife

• ‘I wish I could bear the pang for both’ - / ‘I wish I could bear the pang alone’

• it is not pain / thus to kiss and die

Twice

• let me live or die / but this once hear me speak

• as you set it down it broke, - / broke but I did not wince

• i take my heart in my hand, /O my God, O my God

• this contemned of a man / this marred one

• I shall not die, but live

Echo

• oh dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet / Whose wakening should have been in paradise

• come to me in my dreams, that I may live / My very life again tho’ cold in death

• pulse for pulse, breath for breath

Goblin Market

• come buy, come buy

• with sunk eyes and faded mouth / she dream'd of melons

• must she then buy no more such dainty fruit? / Must she no more such sucuous pasture find, / gone deaf and blind

• cat-like and rat like

• we must not look at goblin men / we must not buy their fruits

• eat me, drink me, love me

• make much of me; / for your sake, i have braved the glen / and had to do with goblin merchant men

• Golden head by Golden head / like two pigeons in one nest (just after Laura consumes fruit)

• there is no friend like a sister / in calm or stormy weather

• twilight is not good for maidens

Shut out

• A shadowless spirit kept the gate /...He answered not

• My garden, mine,

• Bid my home remember me / Until I come to it again

• iron bars

• he left no loophole great or small

• so now i sit here quite alone . blinded with tears

Soeur Louise de la Misericorde

• I have desired and I have been desired

• Now the days are over of desire

• Longing and love, pangs of a perished pleasure

• Where is the hire for which my life was hired?