rossetti quotes

• The speaker reminisces on her past relationship with Thomas: “waded ankle-deep / For lilies in the beck”, Maude Clare
• How Thomas is still stuck thinking of his ex: “My lord gazed long on Maude Clare”, Maude Clare
• Maude Clare offers to Nell: “Take my share of a fickle heart”, Maude Clare
• The speaker frees herself of her connection to Thomas: “I wash my hands thereof”, Maude Clare
• The speaker thinks about her past motivations in life: “I have desired, and I have been desired;”, Souer Louise De La Misericorde
• She laments that, “Now dust and dying embers mock my fire”, Souer Louise De La Misericorde
• “Oh vanity of vanities, desire!” refrain used in Souer Louise De La Misericorde
• What leaks out of the speaker's heart: “Drop by drop slowly, drop by drop of fire”, Souer Louise De La Misericorde
• When Lizzie leaves, Laura describes: “When its last restraint is gone”, Goblin Market
• Lizzie's warning to Laura: “Laura, Laura / You should not peep at goblin men”, Goblin Market
• “Whose grapes are so luscious”, Goblin Market
• “Come buy, come buy”, Goblin Market
• What does Laura offer to the goblins?

  “a precious golden lock”, Goblin Market
• Laura's desperation after the goblins leave: “She pined and pined away”, Goblin Market
• How the goblins treat Lizzie: “Held her hands and squeez'd their fruits”, Goblin Market
• The importance of sisterhood: “For there is no friend like a sister / In calm or stormy weather”, Goblin Market
• Opening line: "it's a weary life, it is, she said", From the Antique
• Disillusionment with gender roles: "I wish and wish I were a man", From the Antique
• The speaker describes society: "we're nothing at all in the world", From the Antique
• The speaker's feeling of purposelessness: "still the world would wag on the same", From the Antique
• "none would miss me in all the world", From the Antique
• How his unnamed wife is depicted: “Skene looked at his pale young wife”, In the Round Tower at Jhansi
• The othering of those outside of the tower: “The swarming howling wretches below”, In the Round Tower at Jhansi
• “I wish I could bear the pang for both / I wish I could bear the pang alone”, In the Round Tower at Jhansi
• “Thus to kiss and die.” In the Round Tower at Jhansi
• The unified couple: ‘And yet one again.’”, In the Round Tower at Jhansi