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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Who rules these lands? the Pilgrim said."Stranger, Queen Blanchelys.""And who has thus harried them?" he said."It was Duke Luke did ...
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 ...
THE shadows fall along the wall, It's night at Haye-la-Serre; The maidens ...
October, and eleven after dark: Both mist and night. Among us in the coach Packed heat on which the windows ...
18th November 1852 "VICTORY!" So once more the cry must ...
THERE is a big artist named Val, The roughs' and the prize-fighters' pal: The mind of a groom And the ...
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 ...
Let no man ask thee of anything Not yearborn between Spring and Spring. More of all worlds than he can ...
Strong extreme speed, that the brain hurries with, Further than trees, and hedges, and green grass Whitened by distance,-further than ...
HEAVENBORN Helen, Sparta's queen,(O Troy Town!)Had two breasts of heavenly sheen,The sun and moon of the heart's desire:All Love's lordship ...
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 ...
She fell asleep on Christmas Eve:At length the long-ungranted shadeOf weary eyelids overweigh'dThe pain nought else might yet relieve.Our mother, ...
I A REMOTE sky, prolonged to the sea's brim: One rock-point standing ...
'TIS of the Father Hilary. He strove, but could not pray; so took ...
I (To M.F.R.) SISTER, first shake we off the dust we have ...
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 ...
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