A Death-Parting (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
LEAVES and rain and the days of the year,(Water-willow and wellaway,)All these fall, and my soul gives ear,And she is ...
LEAVES and rain and the days of the year,(Water-willow and wellaway,)All these fall, and my soul gives ear,And she is ...
Behold, even I, even I am Beatrice.(Div. Com. Purg. xxx.)OF Florence and of BeatriceServant and singer from of old,O'er Dante's ...
By none but me can the tale be told,The butcher of Rouen, poor Berold.(Lands are swayed by a King on ...
Lazy laughing languid Jenny,Fond of a kiss and fond of a guinea,Whose head upon my knee to-nightRests for a while, ...
In our Museum galleriesTo-day I lingered o'er the prizeDead Greece vouchsafes to living eyes,-Her Art for ever in fresh wiseFrom ...
What thing unto mine earWouldst thou convey,-what secret thing,O wandering water ever whispering?Surely thy speech shall be of her.Thou water, ...
Who rules these lands? the Pilgrim said."Stranger, Queen Blanchelys.""And who has thus harried them?" he said."It was Duke Luke did ...
O HAVE you seen the Stratton floodThat's great with rain to-day?It runs beneath your wall, Lord Sands,Full of the new-mown ...
Master of the murmuring courtsWhere the shapes of sleep convene!-Lo! my spirit here exhortsAll the powers of thy demesneFor their ...
October, and eleven after dark: Both mist and night. Among us in the coach Packed heat on which the windows ...
THERE is a big artist named Val, The roughs' and the prize-fighters' pal: The mind of a groom And the ...
Let no man ask thee of anything Not yearborn between Spring and Spring. More of all worlds than he can ...
I A REMOTE sky, prolonged to the sea's brim: One rock-point standing ...
IEat thou and drink; to-morrow thou shalt die.Surely the earth, that's wise being very old,Needs not our help. Then loose ...
I. HERSELFTo be a sweetness more desired than Spring;A bodily beauty more acceptableThan the wild rose-tree's arch that crowns the ...
THE silver cord is loosed, he said, "The golden bowl is broken; A few more prayers having been prayed, A ...
CONSIDER the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible,- ...
Could you not drink her gaze like wine?Yet though its splendour swoonInto the silence languidlyAs a tune into a tune,Those ...
ON a fair Sabbath day, when His banquet is spread, It is pleasant to feast ...
IBeholding youth and hope in mockery caughtFrom life; and mocking pulses that remainWhen the soul's death of bodily death is ...
ITo-day Death seems to me an infant childWhich her worn mother Life upon my kneeHas set to grow my friend ...
The Orchard-PitPiled deep below the screening apple-branch They lie with bitter apples in their hands: And some are only ancient ...
Never happy any more! Aye, turn the saying o'er and o'er, It says but what it said before, And heart ...
(In the Hospital of St. John at Bruges) MYSTERY: Catherine the bride of Christ. ...
(In the Louvre) SCARCELY, I think; yet it indeed may be The ...
(In the Academy of Bruges) MYSTERY: God, man's life, born into man ...
WATER, for anguish of the solstice:-nay, But dip the vessel slowly,-nay, but lean ...
LEAVES and rain and the days of the year, (Water-willow and wellaway,) All these fall, and my soul gives ear, ...
SHE knew it not:-most perfect pain To learn: this too she knew not. Strife ...
Around the vase of Life at your slow paceHe has not crept, but turned it with his hands,And all its ...
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