Sonnet I: Love Enthroned (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
I marked all kindred Powers the heart finds fair:-Truth, with awed lips; and Hope, with eyes upcast;And Fame, whose loud ...
I marked all kindred Powers the heart finds fair:-Truth, with awed lips; and Hope, with eyes upcast;And Fame, whose loud ...
Sweet Love,-but oh! most dread Desire of LoveLife-thwarted. Linked in gyves I saw them stand,Love shackled with Vain-longing, hand to ...
Once more the changed year's turning wheel returns:And as a girl sails balanced in the wind,And now before and now ...
Of Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told(The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,)That, ere the snake's, her ...
THAT voice I hear,-how heard I cannot tell,- Although my home is this, seems from my home: There… still it ...
THIS tree, here fall'n, no common birth or deathShared with its kind. The world's enfranchised son,Who found the trees of ...
What is the sorriest thing that enters Hell?None of the sins,-but this and that fair deedWhich a soul's sin at ...
When that dead face, bowered in the furthest years,Which once was all the life years held for thee,Can now scarce ...
The changing guests, each in a different mood,Sit at the roadside table and arise:And every life among them in like ...
Thou Ghost, I said, "and is thy name To-day?-Yesterday's son, with such an abject brow!-And can To-morrow be more pale ...
There came an image in Life's retinueThat had Love's wings and bore his gonfalon:Fair was the web, and nobly wrought ...
EVEN as when utter summer makes the grain Bow heavily along through the whole land It seems to me whatever ...
The hour which might have been yet might not be,Which man's and woman's heart conceived and boreYet whereof life was ...
That lamp thou fill'st in Eros' name to-night,O Hero, shall the Sestian augurs takeTo-morrow, and for drowned Leander's sakeTo Anteros ...
As when desire, long darkling, dawns, and firstThe mother looks upon the newborn child,Even so my Lady stood at gaze ...
ONE scarce would think that we can be the sameWho used, in those first childish Junes, to creepWith held breath ...
DOUBT spake no word in me as there I kneeled. Loathing, I could not praise: I could not thank God ...
Not I myself know all my love for thee:How should I reach so far, who cannot weighTo-morrow's dower by gage ...
TURN not the prophet's page, O Son! He knewAll that Thou hast to suffer, and hath writ.Not yet Thine hour ...
IN her deep bosom the pride settled down-That pride which is a brackish thing like salt; And the life in ...
From child to youth; from youth to arduous man;From lethargy to fever of the heart;From faithful life to dream-dowered days ...
Under the arch of Life, where love and death,Terror and mystery, guard her shrine, I sawBeauty enthroned; and though her ...
Whence came his feet into my field, and why?How is it that he sees it all so drear?How do I ...
A Sonnet is a moment's monument,-Memorial from the Soul's eternityTo one dead deathless hour. Look that it be,Whether for lustral ...
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