Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1828-1882 / Male / English

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Essential Poems

A first path through Dante Gabriel Rossetti, balancing reader signal, quality labels, registers, and obvious canonical titles.

House of Life and Love

House of Life sonnets, love's gifts, kisses, sight, and Rossetti's devotional eroticism.

Beauty, Body, and Soul

Body's Beauty, Soul's Beauty, women, portraits, and Rossetti's visual intensity.

Death, Memory, and Lost Days

Dead ladies, lost days, death-in-love, autumn, and Rossetti's haunted retrospection.

Nuptial SleepAt length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart: / And as the last slow sudden drops are shed /

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Body’s BeautyOf Adam’s first wife, Lilith, it is told / (The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,) / That, ere

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The Love-LetterWarmed by her hand and shadowed by her hair / As close she leaned and poured her heart through thee,

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Soul’s BeautyUnder the arch of Life, where love and death, / Terror and mystery, guard her shrine, I saw / Beauty

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WillowwoodI / I sat with Love upon a woodside well, / Leaning across the water, I and he; / Nor ever did he sp

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Barren SpringSo now the changed year’s turning wheel returns / And as a girl sails balanced in the wind, / And no

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InclusivenessThe changing guests, each in a different mood, / Sit at the roadside table and arise: / And every li

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Supreme SurrenderO all the spirits of love that wander by / Along the love-sown fallowfield of sleep / My lady lies a

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The KissWhat smouldering senses in death’s sick delay / Or seizure of malign vicissitude / Can rob this body

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The Ballad Of Dead LadiesFrom the French of François Villon / Tell me now in what hidden way is / Lady Flora the lovely Roman

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