Rossetti Quotes Flashcards
‘When I am dead, My Dearest:’ death
‘Plant thou no roses at my head’
- soul sleep, tone of acceptance, empowering
‘Remember:’ death
‘Gone far away into the silent land’
‘Remember:’ grief
‘You tell me of our future that you plann’d’
‘From the Antique:’ gender
‘Doubly blank is a woman’s lot’
‘I wish and I wish I were a man’
‘From the Antique:’ depression
‘Still the world would wag on the same’
‘None would miss me in all the world’
‘Shut Out:’ depression
‘I sit here quite alone / Blinded with tears’
‘Shut Out:’ misuse of power
‘He left no loophole great or small’
‘A shadowless spirit […] blank and unchanging like the grave’
‘Shut Out:’ grief
‘my delightful land is gone’
‘nought is left worth looking at’
‘In the Round Tower at Jhansi:’ love
‘I wish I could bear the pang for both’
‘A Birthday:’ religious euphoria
‘My heart is like an apple-tree, / whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit’
‘Carve it in doves and pomegranates’
‘A Birthday:’ decadence
‘Work it in gold and silver grapes’
‘Carve it in doves and pomegranates’
‘Maude Clare:’ gender
‘With lofty step and mien’
‘[Thomas’ father] was not so pale as you’
‘waded ankle-deep for lilies in the beck’
‘Maude Clare:’ love
‘The lilies are budding now’
‘Here’s my half of the faded leaves’
‘Take my share of a fickle heart’
‘I’ll love him till he loves me best’
‘Up-Hill:’ religious doubt
‘Will there be beds for me and all who seek?’
call and response, uncertainty
‘No, Thank You, John:’ gender
‘Use your common sense.’
‘Don’t call me false, who owed not to be true’
‘I’ll wink at your untruth’
