Sonnet XLIII: Love and Hope (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
Bless love and hope. Full many a withered yearWhirled past us, eddying to its chill doomsday;And clasped together where the ...
Bless love and hope. Full many a withered yearWhirled past us, eddying to its chill doomsday;And clasped together where the ...
BEHOLD Fiammetta, shown in Vision here.Gloom-girt 'mid Spring-flushed apple-growth she stands;And as she sways the branches with her hands,Along her ...
High grace, the dower of queens; and therewithalSome wood-born wonder's sweet simplicity;A glance like water brimming with the skyOr hyacinth-light ...
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 ...
SWEET Poet, thou of whom these years that roll Must one day yet the burdened birthright learn, And by the ...
The mother will not turn, who thinks she hearsHer nursling's speech first grow articulate;But breathless with averted eyes elateShe sits, ...
Some prisoned moon in steep cloud-fastnesses,-Throned queen and thralled; some dying sun whose pyreBlazed with momentous memorable fire;-Who hath not ...
The changing guests, each in a different mood,Sit at the roadside table and arise:And every life among them in like ...
Thou lovely and beloved, thou my love;Whose kiss seems still the first; whose summoning eyes,Even now, as for our love-world's ...
Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone,But as the meaning of all things that are;A breathless wonder, shadowing forth afarSome ...
Great Michelangelo, with age grown bleakAnd uttermost labours, having once o'ersaidAll grievous memories on his long life shed,This worst regret ...
By thine own tears thy song must tears beget,O Singer! Magic mirror thou hast noneExcept thy manifest heart; and save ...
Because our talk was of the cloud-controlAnd moon-track of the journeying face of Fate,Her tremulous kisses faltered at love's gateAnd ...
As thy friend's face, with shadow of soul o'erspread,Somewhile unto thy sight perchance hath beenGhastly and strange, yet never so ...
As when two men have loved a woman well,Each hating each, through Love's and Death's deceit;Since not for either this ...
Two separate divided silences,Which, brought together, would find loving voice;Two glances which together would rejoiceIn love, now lost like stars ...
From child to youth; from youth to arduous man;From lethargy to fever of the heart;From faithful life to dream-dowered days ...
O thou who at Love's hour ecstaticallyUnto my heart dost evermore present,Clothed with his fire, thy heart his testament;Whom I ...
O Lord of all compassionate control,O Love! let this my lady's picture glowUnder my hand to praise her name, and ...
Whence came his feet into my field, and why?How is it that he sees it all so drear?How do I ...
When vain desire at last and vain regretGo hand in hand to death, and all is vain,What shall assuage the ...
THE thoughts in me are very calm and high That think upon your love: yet by your leave You shall ...
A Sonnet is a moment's monument,-Memorial from the Soul's eternityTo one dead deathless hour. Look that it be,Whether for lustral ...
Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf How the heart feels a languid grief Laid on it for ...
Gustave Flaubert, whose honoured r?le Was to be scribe to Nero's soul, And make French flesh to creep and crow ...
OH how the family affections combat Within this heart, and each hour flings a bomb at My burning soul! Neither ...
THOU fill'st from the winged chalice of the soulThy lamp, O Memory, fire-winged to its goal.(Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
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