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 ...
A little while a little loveThe hour yet bears for thee and meWho have not drawn the veil to seeIf ...
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, ...
Why did you melt your waxen man,Sister Helen?To-day is the third since you began."The time was long, yet the time ...
It was Lilith the wife of Adam:(Sing Eden Bower!)Not a drop of her blood was human,But she was made like ...
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 ...
The blessed damozel leaned outFrom the gold bar of Heaven;Her eyes were deeper than the depthOf waters stilled at even;She ...
Mother of the Fair Delight,Thou handmaid perfect in God's sight,Now sitting fourth beside the Three,Thyself a woman-Trinity,-Being a daughter born ...
This is her picture as she was:It seems a thing to wonder on,As though mine image in the glassShould tarry ...
Strong extreme speed, that the brain hurries with, Further than trees, and hedges, and green grass Whitened by distance,-further than ...
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 ...
I.HONEY-FLOWERS to the honey-comb, And the honey-bee's from home.A honey-comb and a honey-flower, And the bee shall have his hour.A ...
SAY, is it day, is it dusk in thy bower,Thou whom I long for, who longest for me?Oh! be it ...
THE day is dark and the nightTo him that would search their heart;No lips of cloud that will partNor morning ...
LOVE, I speak to your heart, Your heart that is always here. Oh draw me deep to its sphere, Though ...
ITo-day Death seems to me an infant childWhich her worn mother Life upon my kneeHas set to grow my friend ...
MY young lord's the loverOf earth and sky above,Of youth's sway and youth's play,Of songs and flowers and love.Yet for ...
O BELLA Mano, che ti lavi e piaciIn quel medesmo tuo puro elementoDonde la Dea dell' amoroso avventoNacque, (e dall' ...
LEAVES and rain and the days of the year, (Water-willow and wellaway,) All these fall, and my soul gives ear, ...
BETWEEN the hands, between the brows,Between the lips of Love-Lily,A spirit is born whose birth endowsMy blood with fire to ...
Love hath a chamber all of imagery;And there is one dim nook,A little storied web wherein my heartFrom leaf to ...
I LOOKED and saw your eyes In the shadow of your hair, As a traveller sees the stream In the ...
ALONG the grass sweet airs are blownOur way this day in Spring.Of all the songs that we have knownNow which ...
WHY wilt thou cast the roses from thine hair?Nay, be thou all a rose,-wreath, lips, and cheek.Nay, not this house,-that ...
On this sweet bank your head thrice sweet and dearI lay, and spread your hair on either side,And see the ...
HIS Soul fared forth (as from the deep home-groveThe father-songster plies the hour-long quest),To feed his soul-brood hungering in the ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories