Rossetti Key Quotes for each Poem
Song: When I Am Dead My Dearest:
‘sing no sad songs for me’
‘And if thou wilt, remember,/ and if thou wilt, forget.’
‘Haply I may remember,/ and haply I may forget.’
Remember:
‘the silent land’
‘Remember me when I am gone away’
‘You tell me of our future you planned’
‘forget and smile / than that you should remember and be sad.’
From The Antique:
‘Doubly blank is a woman’s lot’
‘I wish and I wish I were a man’
‘Still the world would wag on the same’
‘None would miss me in all the world’
‘Would wake and weary and fall asleep’
Echo:
‘Silence of dreams’
‘Too, sweet, too bitter sweet’
‘thirsting longing eyes’
‘That opening, letting in, lets out no more.’
Shut Out:
‘The Door was shut.’
‘My garden, mine.’
‘It had been mine, and it was lost.’
‘my outcast state’
‘The spirit was silent’
‘left no loophole great or small’
‘I sit here alone’
‘My delightful land is gone’
In The Round Tower at Jhansi (Indian Mutiny):
‘Pale young wife’
‘Young, strong and so full of life’
‘God forgive them this’
‘I wish I could bear the pang for both
‘Good bye- Good bye.’
A Birthday:
‘My heart is like a singing bird’
‘my love is come to me’
‘hang it with vair and purple dyes’
‘the birthday of my life’
Maude Clare:
‘Maude Clare was like a queen’
‘His bride was like a village maid’
‘As pale as Nell’
‘My half of a gold chain’
‘the lilies are budding now.’
‘take my share of a fickle heart’
I’ll love him till he loves me best,/Me best of all, Maude Clare.’
Up-Hill:
‘You cannot miss that inn.’
‘Shall I find comfort, travel-sore and weak?’
‘But is there for tonight a resting place’
‘Yes Beds for all who come.’
No Thank You, John:
‘Why will you tease me day by day’
‘You know I never loved you John’
‘I don’t give you what I have not got’
‘Use your common sense’
‘face as wan as an hour-old ghost’
‘Let’s strike our hands in hearty friendship’
‘I’ll wink at your untruth’
‘Here’s friendship for you if you like,’
Good Friday:
‘Am I a stone and not a sheep'
‘Yet give not o’er’
‘But seek Thy sheep’
Goblin Market:
‘Come Buy’
‘Fruit forbidden’
‘Silent till Lizzie slept;/Then sat up in a passionate yearning'
‘both were wives with children of their own’
‘Sucked and Sucked and Sucked’
Twice:
‘I took my heart in my hand’
‘a woman’s words are weak/ You should speak not I’
‘a critical eye’
‘it is still unripe’
‘my broken heart in my hand’
judge me now’
‘purge thou’
‘refine with fire its gold’
‘I shall not die, but live’
‘But shall not question much’
Winter: My Secret:
‘I tell my secret?’
‘Perhaps someday, who knows’
‘my secret’s only mine, and I won’t tell.’
‘just my fun’
‘yet I don’t trust’
‘that truth untested still’
‘my secret I may say/ or you may guess’
Soeur Louise De La Misericorde:
‘I have desired’
‘Longing and love, pangs of perished pleasure’
‘stunting my hope’
‘my garden plot a barren mire’