Jenny (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
Lazy laughing languid Jenny,Fond of a kiss and fond of a guinea,Whose head upon my knee to-nightRests for a while, ...
Lazy laughing languid Jenny,Fond of a kiss and fond of a guinea,Whose head upon my knee to-nightRests for a while, ...
Who rules these lands? the Pilgrim said."Stranger, Queen Blanchelys.""And who has thus harried them?" he said."It was Duke Luke did ...
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 ...
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 ...
Strong extreme speed, that the brain hurries with, Further than trees, and hedges, and green grass Whitened by distance,-further than ...
II sat with Love upon a woodside well,Leaning across the water, I and he;Nor ever did he speak nor looked ...
THE silver cord is loosed, he said, "The golden bowl is broken; A few more prayers having been prayed, A ...
The Orchard-PitPiled deep below the screening apple-branch They lie with bitter apples in their hands: And some are only ancient ...
O COOL unto the sense of pain That last night's sleep could not destroy; ...
THIN are the night-skirts left behindBy daybreak hours that onward creep,And thin, alas! the shred of sleepThat wavers with the ...
'Twixt those twin worlds,-the world of Sleep, which gaveNo dream to warn,-the tidal world of Death,Which the earth's sea, as ...
At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:And as the last slow sudden drops are shedFrom sparkling eaves when ...
The gloom that breathes upon me with these airsIs like the drops which strike the traveller's browWho knows not, darkling, ...
THE weltering London ways where children weepAnd girls whom none call maidens laugh,-strange roadMiring his outward steps, who inly trodeThe ...
Of Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told(The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,)That, ere the snake's, her ...
The changing guests, each in a different mood,Sit at the roadside table and arise:And every life among them in like ...
Girt in dark growths, yet glimmering with one star,O night desirous as the nights of youth!Why should my heart within ...
Because our talk was of the cloud-controlAnd moon-track of the journeying face of Fate,Her tremulous kisses faltered at love's gateAnd ...
To all the spirits of Love that wander byAlong his love-sown harvest-field of sleepMy lady lies apparent; and the deepCalls ...
THE hop-shop is shut up: the night doth wear. Here, early, Collinson this evening fell "Into the gulfs of sleep"; ...
I stood where Love in brimming armfuls boreSlight wanton flowers and foolish toys of fruit:And round him ladies thronged in ...
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