Even as the moon grows queenlier in mid-space
When the sky darkens, and her cloud-rapt car
Thrills with intenser radiance from afar,-
So lambent, lady, beams thy sovereign grace
When the drear soul desires thee. Of that face
What shall be said,-which, like a governing star,
Gathers and garners from all things that are
Their silent penetrative loveliness?
O’er water-daisies and wild waifs of Spring,
There where the iris rears its gold-crowned sheaf
With flowering rush and sceptred arrow-leaf,
So have I marked Queen Dian, in bright ring
Of cloud above and wave below, take wing
And chase night’s gloom, as thou the spirit’s grief.
(Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
More Poetry from Dante Gabriel Rossetti:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems based on Topics: Spring, Sadness, Grief- A Death-Parting (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
- A Little While (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
- Dante At Verona (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
- The White Ship Henry I. Of England.-25t (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
- Jenny (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
- The Burden of Nineveh (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
Readers Who Like This Poem Also Like:
Based on Topics: Sadness Poems, Spring Poems, Grief PoemsBased on Keywords: waifs, garners, sceptred, intenser, governing, penetrative, queenlier, gold-crowned, water-daisies, mid-space