How we cite our quotes: (Line)
Quote #1
Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers,
From those brown hills, have melted into spring:
Faithful, indeed, is the spirit that remembers
After such years of change and suffering! (9-12)
Fifteen wild Decembers have gone by and those brown hills are melting, but the speaker remains faithful in her remembrance—despite all of the change and suffering. That coldness still lingers along with her suffering and memory of her loss, so she's in an eternal December that just won't go away.
Quote #2
All my life's bliss from thy dear life was given,
All my life's bliss is in the grave with thee. (19-20)
The anaphora we see in these lines really reiterates the speaker's feeling that her suffering is all she has since all of her bliss is in the grave with her lover. She's resigned herself to her suffering at this point and isn't about to seek out any new bliss.
Quote #3
And, even yet, I dare not let it languish,
Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain;
Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,
How could I seek the empty world again? (29-32)
By now our speaker's learned that she must check those tears of "useless passion" and control that indulgence. Indulging in memory's "rapturous pain" is like seeking an "empty world again," which doesn't do much good for the speaker's own survival