Poems quotes Flashcards
(18 cards)
Song: When I am Dead, My Dearest - 1848
S1 “When I am dead, my dearest”
S1 “Sing no sad songs for me”
S1 “Plant thou no roses at my head Nor shady cypress tree”
S1 “And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget.”
S2 “I shall not” “see” “feel” “hear”
S2 “the nightingale Sing on, as if in pain”
S2 “Haply I may remember, And haply may forget.”
Remember - 1849
“Remember me when I am gone away”
“When you can no longer hold me by the hand”
“Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.”
“Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.”
From the Antique - 1854, not published
S1 “It’s a weary life, it is, she said”
S1 “I wish and I wish I were a man: Or, better than any being, were not”
S3 “Still the world would wag on the same”
S4 “None would miss me in all the world”
S4 “I should be nothing”
S4 “all the rest Would wake and weary and fall asleep.”
Echo - 1854
S1 “Come to me” “Come in” “Come with”
S1 “the speaking silence of a dream”
S1 “O memory, hope, love of finished years.”
S2 “O dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet”
S2 “Watch the slow door That opening, letting in, lets out no more.”
S3 “Yet come to me in my dreams, that I may live, My very life again though cold in death”
S3 “Pulse for pulse, breath for breath”
S3 “Speak low, lean low As long ago, my love, how long ago.”
Shut Out - 1856
S1 “The door was shut.”
S1 “My garden, mine”
S2 “bough to bough” “song-birds” “flower to flower” “moths” “bees” “nests” “stately trees”
S2 “It had been mine, and it was lost.”
S3 “A shadowless spirit kept the gate, Blank and unchanging like the grave.”
S5 “The spirit was silent; but he took Mortar and stone to build a wall”
S6 “quite alone, Blinded with tears”
S6 “nought is left worth looking at Since my delightful land is gone”
S7 “A violet bed is budding near”
S7 “And good they are, but not the best; And dear they are, but not so dear”
In The Round Tower at Jhansi (Indian Mutiny) - 1857
S1 “A hundred, a thousand to one”
S1 “Not a hope in the world remained”
S1 “swarming howling wretches below”
S2 “Skene looked at his pale young wife
S2 “Young, strong and so full of life: The agony struck them dumb.”
S3 “Close his arm about her” “Close her cheek to his” “Close the pistol”
S3 “God forgive them this!”
S3 “ ‘I wish I could bear the pang for both.’ ‘I wish I could bear the pang alone.’ ”
S4 “ ‘It is not pain Thus to kiss and die.’ ”
S4 “ ‘Good-bye.’ ‘Good-bye.’ ”
A Birthday - 1857
S1 “My heart is like a singing-bird” “rainbow shell” “halcyon see”
S1 “My heart is gladder than all these Because my love is come to me.”
S2 “Raise me a dais of silk and down”
S2 “Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes”
S2 “Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.”
Maude Clare - 1858
S1 “His bride was like a village maid, Maude Clare was like a queen”
S2 “his lady mother said, With smiles, almost with tears”
S3 “Your father thirty years ago Had just your tale to tell”
S4 “My lord was pale with inward strife And Nell was pale with pride”
S4 “My lord gazed long on pale Maude Clare Or ever he kissed the bride”
S5 “I have bought my gift” “To bless the hearth, to bless the board, To bless the marriage bed”
S6 “Here’s my half of the golden chain You wore about your neck”
S6 “That day we waded […] for lilies”
S7 “The lilies are budding now.”
S8 “faltered”
S8 “ ‘Lady,’ he said, - ‘Maude Clare,’ he said, - ‘Maude Clare,’ - and hid his face.”
S10 “Take my share of a fickle heart”
S10 “Take it or leave it as you will, I wash my hands thereof.”
S11 “And what you spurn, I’ll wear”
S12 “More wise and much more fair”
S12 “I’ll love him till he loves me best, Me best of all Maude Clare.”
Up-hill - 1861
S1 “Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.”
S1 “From morn to night, my friend.”
S2 “for the night a resting-place”
S2 “You cannot miss that inn.”
S3 “Shall I meet other wayfarers at night? Those who have gone before.”
S3 “They will not keep you standing at that door.”
S4 “Shall I find comfort, travel-sore and weak? Of labour you shall find the sum.”
S4 “Will there be beds for me and all who seek? Yea, beds for all who come.”
No, thank you, John - 1862
S1 “I never said I loved you, John”
S1 “Why will you tease me day by day”
S1 “wax a weariness”
S2 “You know I never loved you, John”
S2 “No fault of mine made me your toast”
S2 “haunt me”
S3 “I dare say Meg or Moll would take Pity upon you, if you’d ask”
S4 “I have no heart? Perhaps I have not”
S4 “you’re made to take offence
S4 “Use your common sense.”
S5 “Let bygones be bygones”
S5 “I’d rather answer ‘No’ to fifty Johns Than answer ‘Yes’ to you.”
S6 “Let’s mar our pleasant days no more”
S7 “Let us strike hands as hearty friends”
S7 “Only don’t keep in view ulterior ends”
S8 “Here’s friendship for you if you like; but love — No, thank you, John.”
Twice - 1864
S1 “I took my heart in my hand”
S1 “(O my love, O my love)”
S1 “Let me fall or stand, Let me live or die”
S1 “Yet a woman’s words are weak; You should speak, not I.”
S2 “You took my heart in your hand” “then set it down”
S2 “friendly smile” “critical eye”
S2 “And said: it is still unripe, Better wait awhile”
S3 “As you set it down it broke — Broke, but I did not wince”
S3 “I smiled at the speech you spoke; At your judgement that I heard”
S4 “I take my heart in my hand”
S4 “(O my God, O my God)”
S4 “Now let Thy judgement stand — Yea, judge me now.”
S5 “This contemned of a man, This marred one heedless day”
S5 “Refine with fire its gold, Purge Thou its dross away”
S6 “I shall not die, but live”
S6 “All that I have I bring, All that I am I give”
S6 “Smile Thou and I shall sing, But shall not question much.”
Winter: My Secret - 1857
S1 “I tell my secret? […] Perhaps some day, who knows?”
S1 “not today: it froze, and blows, and snows”
S2 “Suppose there is no secret after all, But only just my fun.”
S2 “Today’s a nipping day, a biting day; In which one wants a shawl”
S2 “I cannot ope to every one who taps, And let the draughts come whistling thro’ my hall”
S2 “To be pecked at by every wind that blows?”
S2 “You would not peck? I thank you for good will […] but leave that truth untested still.”
S3 “Spring’s an expansive time: yet I don’t trust”
S3 “Perhaps some languid summer day […] Perhaps my secret I may say, Or you may guess.”
Good Friday - 1866
S1 “Am I a stone and not a sheep”
S1 “That I can stand, O Christ, beneath Thy Cross, […] And yet not weep?”
S2 “Not so those women” “Not so fallen Peter” “Not so the thief”
S3 “the Sun and Moon, Which hid their faces in a starless sky”
S3 “A horror of great darkness at broad noon”
S3 “I, only I.”
S4 “Yet give not o’er, But seek Thy sheep”
S4 “Greater than Moses, turn and look once more And smite a rock.”
Soeur Louise de la Miséricorde - 1882
S1 “I have desired, and I have been desired”
S1 “dust and dying embers mock my fire”
S1 “Where is the hire for which my life was hired?”
S2 “Longing and love, pangs of perished pleasure […] disenkindled fire”
S2 “memory a bottomless gulf of mire” “love a fount of tears”
S3 “Alas, my rose of life gone all to prickles”
S4 “Stunting my hope which might have strained up higher”
S4 “Turning my garden plot to barren mire”
S4 “Oh vanity of vanities, desire!”
Goblin Market - 1862
Part 1: temptation
S1 “Sweet to tongue and sound to eye; Come buy, come buy.”
S2 “Laura bowed her head to hear, Lizzie veiled her blushes.”
S2 “crouching close together” “clasping arms” “cautioning lips” “tingling cheeks and finger tips”
S2 “We must not look at goblin men”
S2 “[Lizzie] thrust a […] finger In each ear, shut eyes and ran”
S2 “Curious Laura chose to linger Wondering at each merchant man.”
S3 “Laura stretched […] Like a vessel at the launch When its last restraint is gone.”
S4 “Laura stared but did not stir, Longed but had no money”
Goblin Market - 1862
Part 2: the fall
S5 “She clipped a precious golden lock, She dropped a tear more rare than pearl”
S5 “She sucked and sucked and sucked the more”
S6 “Do you not remember Jeanie, How she met them in the moonlight?”
S6 “but dwindled and grew grey”
S6 “While to this day no grass will grow Where she lies low”
S6 “I ate and ate my fill, Yet my mouth waters still.”
S6 “I’ll bring you plums tomorrow […] Cherries worth getting …”
S7 “Golden head by golden head” “cheek to cheek and breast to breast” “in one nest”
S7 “Like two blossoms” “Like two flakes” “Like two wands”
S8 “Talked as modest maidens should”
S8 “One warbling for the mere bright day’s delight, One longing for the night.”
S9 “Lizzie most placid in her look, Laura most like a leaping flame.”
S10 “The customary cry, ‘Come buy, come buy,’ With its iterated jingle Of sugar-baited words”
S10 “The stars rise, the moon bends her arc […] Let us get home before the night grows dark”
S11 “Laura turned cold as stone To find her sister heard that [goblin] cry alone”
S11 “Gone deaf and blind” “Her tree of life dropped from the root”
S11 “She said not one word in her heart’s sore ache”
S11 “sat up in a passionate yearning” “gnashed her teeth for baulked desire”
S12 “Her hair grew thin and gray; She dwindled, as the fair full moon doth turn To swift decay and burn Her fire away.”
S13 “She dreamed of melons, as a traveller sees False waves in a desert drouth”
S14 “She no more swept the house […] But sat down listless”
Goblin Market - 1862
Part 3: sacrifice
S15 “Tender Lizzie could not bear To watch her sister’s cankerous care”
S15 “Poor Laura […] Longed to buy fruit to comfort her, But feared to pay too dear”
S15 “She thought of Jeanie in her grave, Who should have been a bride”
S16 “And for the first time in her life Began to listen and look.”
S17 “Chuckling, clapping, crowing, Clucking and gobbling”
S17 “Cat-like and rat-like”
S17 “Hugged her and kissed her Squeezed and caressed her”
S18 “Nay, take a seat with us, Honour and eat with us”
S18 “Such fruits as these No man can carry”
S18 “One called her proud, Cross-grained, uncivil”
S18 “They trod and hustled her, Elbowed and jostled her, Clawing with their nails”
S18 “Tore her gown” “Soiled her stocking”
S18 “Held her hands and squeezed their fruits Against her mouth to make her eat.”
S18 “White and golden Lizzie stood Like a lily in a flood”
S18 “Like a beacon left alone […] Sending up a roaring fire”
S18 “Topped with gilded dome and spire”
S18 “Close beleaguered by a fleet Mad to tug her standard down.”
S19 “One may lead a horse to water, Twenty cannot make him drink.”
S19 “Coaxed her and fought her, Bullied and besought her”
S19 “Lizzie uttered not a word; Would not open lip from lip”
S19 “Of juice that syrupped” “lodged” “streaked”
S19 “At last the evil people Worn out by her resistance Flung back her penny, kicked their fruit”
Goblin Market - 1862
Part 4: redemption
S21 “Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices”
S21 “Eat me, drink me, love me; Laura, make much of me”
S22 “She kissed and kissed with a hungry mouth.”
S23 “Her lips began to scorch, That juice was wormwood to her tongue” “She loathed the feast”
S24 “Swift fire spread thro’ her veins”
S24 “She gorged on bitterness without a name”
S25 “Life out of death”
S25 “Held water to her lips, and cooled her face” “dew-wet grass” “morning winds”
S26 “Their fruits like honey to the throat, But poison in the blood; (Men sell not such in any town:)”
S26 “Would tell them how her sister stood In deadly peril to do her good”
S26 “For there is no friend like a sister” “To cheer” “To fetch” “To lift” “To strengthen”
