Sonnets LLXXI:LXXII: (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
IEat thou and drink; to-morrow thou shalt die.Surely the earth, that's wise being very old,Needs not our help. Then loose ...
IEat thou and drink; to-morrow thou shalt die.Surely the earth, that's wise being very old,Needs not our help. Then loose ...
One river from the mountain springs was born, Into three several streams its course was torn. For one ...
EVER at night have I looked up for thee, O'er thy sidereal sisterhood supreme! Ever at night have scanned the ...
All wounded sore he lay upon my path, His piteous moans his woeful need confessed; I stooped to find his ...
"These were never your true love's eyes. Why do you feign that you love them? You that broke from their ...
I I heard a small sad sound, And stood awhile among the tombs around: "Wherefore, old friends," said I, "are ...
(A Reminiscence, 1893) She wore a 'terra-cotta' dress, And we stayed, because of the pelting storm, Within the hansom's dry ...
In my childhood rumors ran Of a world beyond our door- Terrors to the life of man That the highroad ...
The cluster of daffodils, variegated in color hiding, behind the yellow screened behind the forsythia Seeking out their stature their ...
Like swans, hiding in the reeds the cattails, the plants A cluster of daffodils screened by the forsythia branches Their ...
Here among long-discarded cassocks, Damp stools, and half-split open hassocks, Here where the vicar never looks I nibble through old ...
In the red-roofed stucco house of my childhood, the dining room was screened off by folding doors with small glass ...
Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill; Go, shepherd, and untie the wattled cotes! No longer leave thy ...
First, London, for its myriads; for its height, Manhattan heaped in towering stalagmite; But Paris for the smoothness of the ...
On silver sand where ripples curled I counted sea-gulls seven; Shy, secret screened from all the world, And innocent as ...
All ye pleasure-seekers, where'er ye be, I pray ye all be advised by me, Go and visit Tayport on the ...
On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose. Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend Above the rolling ball in ...
He felt the wild beast in him betweenwhiles So masterfully rude, that he would grieve To see the helpless delicate ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
It was the silver, heart-enveloping view Of the mysterious sea-line far away, Seen only on a gleaming gold-white day, That ...
Late-born and woman-souled I dare not hope, The freshness of the elder lays, the might Of manly, modern passion shall ...
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