Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1828-1882 / English

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Nuptial SleepAt length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart: / And as the last slow sudden drops are shed / From sparkling eaves when all the storm has fled,

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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 the snake’s, her sweet tongue could deceive,

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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, / Whereof the articulate throbs accompany

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Soul’s BeautyUnder the arch of Life, where love and death, / Terror and mystery, guard her shrine, I saw / Beauty enthroned; and though her gaze struck awe,

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WillowwoodI / I sat with Love upon a woodside well, / Leaning across the water, I and he;

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Barren SpringSo now the changed year’s turning wheel returns / And as a girl sails balanced in the wind, / And now before and now again behind

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

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Supreme SurrenderO all the spirits of love that wander by / Along the love-sown fallowfield of sleep / My lady lies apparent; and the deep

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

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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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