Isabella

• “Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel!”
• “With every morn their love grew tenderer.”
• “He knew whose gentle hand was at the latch before the door had given her to his eyes.”
• “To-morrow will I bow to my delight, to-morrow will I ask my lady’s boon.”
• “Untouched cheek.”
• “I will drink her tears.”
• “His heart beat awfully against his side.”
• “Brought him to the meekness of a child.”
• “Speak my grief into thine ear”
• “Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart”
• “Share the inward fragrance of each other’s heart”
• “Though Dido silent is in under-grove”
• “Know there is richest juice in poison-flowers”
• “And went all naked to the hungry shark”
• “Why were they proud?”
• “in hungry pride and gainful cowardice”
• “Money - bags”
• “These men of cruel clay”
• “Cut mercy with a sharp knife to the bone”
• “To kill Lorenzo, and there bury him”
• “Serpents’ whine”
• “Their murdered man”
• “Each richer by being a murderer”
• “She weeps alone for pleasures not to be“
• “Feverish unrest”
• “Sweet Isobel”
• “But there is a crime - a brother’s bloody knife!”
• “She kissed it with a lip more chill than stone”
• “Isabella did not stamp and rave.”
• “Why linger at the yawning tomb so long?”
• “Love never dies, but lives, immortal Lord: If Love impersonate was ever dead.”
• “Twas love - cold, dead indeed, but not dethroned.”
• “Sweet basil, which her tears kept ever wet.”
• “She forgot the stars, the moon, the sun.”
• “She ever fed it with her tears, whence thick, and green, and beautiful it grew.”
• “For simple Isobel is soon to be among the dead.”
• “Patient, as a hen-bird, sat her there beside her basil, weeping through her hair.”
• “For Isobel, sweet Isobel, will die - will die a death too lone and incomplete now they have ta’en away her Basil sweet.”
• “For cruel ‘tis, said she, to steal my basil-pot away from me.”
• “O cruelty, to steal my basil-pot away from me!”