Rossetti - quotations on religion, death, and the afterlife

Remember

• Remember me when I am gone away / Gone far away into the silent land

• 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.

Up-hill

• Does the road wind up-hill all the way? / Yes, to the very end.

• A roof for when the slow dark hours begin

• You cannot miss that inn

• Will there be beds for me and all who seek? / Yes, beds for all who come.

In the Round Tower

• ‘Is the time come?’-’The time is come.'

• Close the pistol to her brow - God forgive them this!

• ‘I wish I could bear the pang for both.’

• ‘I wish I could bear the pang alone: / Courage, dear, I am not loth.’

• ‘It is not pain / Thus to kiss and die.’

Twice

• All that I have I bring / All that I am I bring

• With a critical eye you scanned

• Both within and without

Song: When I am dead, my dearest

• Sing no sad songs for me

• And if thou wilt remember / And if thou wilt forget

• Haply may I remember / And haply may forget - haply sounds like happily but also means perhaps

Good Friday

• To number drop by drop thy blood’s slow loss and not weep?

• Not so those women loved / Who with exceeding grief lamented thee

• I, only, I

A Birthday

• Birthday of my life

• My heart is gladder than all these / Because my love is come to me

• Pomegranates, doves, purple dyes