48+ The Queen Of Hearts Poem Gif. The speaker, we can presume the poet, uses the the queen of hearts is a metaphor for love. The knave of hearts, he stole the tarts, and took them clean away.
Poems quotes books biography comments images. The knave of hearts brought back the tarts. Rossetti explores in this poem the feelings of exasperation that result from losing in the game of love.
The king of hearts, he missed those tarts, and beat the knave full sore;
I never bother to fight. The queen of hearts, she made some tarts, all on a summer's day; And so will the next one. The knave of hearts he stole those tarts, and with them ran away.