Rossetti Some Key Quotes;

Rossetti Some Key Quotes:

GOBLIN MARKET:

·        “‘Sweet to tongue and sound to eye; come buy, come buy.’”

·        “Lizzie most placid in her look, Laura most like a leaping flame.”

·        “Is it death or is it life?”

·        “Their fruits like honey to the throat but poison to the blood.”

MAUDE CLARE:

·     “‘But he was not so pale as you, nor I so pale as Nell.’”

·     “‘The lilies are budding now.’”

·      “‘Take my share of a fickle heart, mine of a paltry love.’”

·      “‘I’ll love him till he loves me best, me best of all Maude Clare.’”

'His bride was like a village maid/Maude Clare was like a queen'

'Lo, I have brought my gift, my lord'

'That day we waded ankle-deep/For lilies in the beck'

'I wash my hands thereof'

'For he's my lord for better and worse'

'More wise and much more fair'

AN APPLE GATHERING:

·        “My neighbours mocked me while they saw me pass so empty-handed back.”

·        “A stronger hand than hers helped it along.”

·        “Was my love less worth...”

·        “But I loitered, while the dews fell fast I loitered still.”

JESSIE CAMERON:

·      “Day was verging toward the night there beside the moaning sea.”

·      “Somewhat heedless with her tongue, and apt at causing pain.”

·     “Louder waxed his urgent speech, his patience almost gone.”

·    “Whether he helped or hindered her, threw up his life or lost it well.”

'Jessie, Jessie Cameron'

'She was a careless, fearless girl'

'Go you your way, and let me go/Just my own free way'

'They stood almost in sight of home'

'They two alone'

'But would not fly'

'Yet he had gone through fire and flood'

'Some say'

'She should have hastened to her home/While yet the west was flushed with fire'

'No more again'

'Utterly out of reach'

'Jessie she comes home no more'

'No way to go'

'Which might be hand or hair'