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Cards (26)

  • 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