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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Let no man ask thee of anything Not yearborn between Spring and Spring. More of all worlds than he can ...
A constant keeping-past of shaken trees, And a bewildered glitter of loose road; Banks of bright growth, with single blades ...
II sat with Love upon a woodside well,Leaning across the water, I and he;Nor ever did he speak nor looked ...
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 ...
SAY, is it day, is it dusk in thy bower,Thou whom I long for, who longest for me?Oh! be it ...
IBeholding youth and hope in mockery caughtFrom life; and mocking pulses that remainWhen the soul's death of bodily death is ...
YESTERDAY was St. Valentine. Thought you at all, dear dove divine, Upon the beard in sorry trim And rueful countenance ...
IThis is that blessed Mary, pre-electGod's Virgin. Gone is a great while, and sheDwelt young in Nazareth of Galilee.Unto God's ...
LUNGI ? la luce che in s? questo muroRifrange appena, un breve istante scortaDel rio palazzo alla soprana porta.Lungi quei ...
Never happy any more! Aye, turn the saying o'er and o'er, It says but what it said before, And heart ...
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 ...
WAVING whispering trees, What do you say to the breeze And what says the breeze to you? 'Mid passing souls ...
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 ...
Warmed by her hand and shadowed by her hairAs close she leaned and poured her heart through thee,Whereof the articulate ...
Sweet Love,-but oh! most dread Desire of LoveLife-thwarted. Linked in gyves I saw them stand,Love shackled with Vain-longing, hand to ...
The ark of the Lord of Hosts Whose name is called by the name of Him Who dwelleth between the ...
THIS is the place. Even here the dauntless soul,The unflinching hand, wrought on; till in that nook,As on that very ...
WITH Shakspeare's manhood at a boy's wild heart,-Through Hamlet's doubt to Shakspeare near allied,And kin to Milton through his Satan's ...
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