The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Bind 1

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Ellis and Elvey, 1890 - 4 sider
 

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Side 236 - Portrait This is her picture as she was: It seems a thing to wonder on, As though mine image in the glass Should tarry when myself am gone. I gaze until she seems to stir, — Until mine eyes almost aver That now, even now, the sweet lips part To breathe the words of the sweet heart: — And yet the earth is over her.
Side 228 - Herseemed she scarce had been a day One of God's choristers ; The wonder was not yet quite gone From that still look of hers ; Albeit, to them she left, her day Had counted as ten years. (To one, it is ten years of years. . . . Yet now, and in this place, Surely she leaned o'er me — her hair Fell all about my face. . . Nothing : the autumn-fall of leaves. The whole year sets apace...
Side 231 - And I myself will teach to him, I myself, lying so, The songs I sing here ; which his voice Shall pause in, hushed and slow, And find some knowledge at each 'pause. Or some new thing to know.
Side 67 - Here's Keith of Westholm riding fast, Sister Helen, For I know the white plume on the blast." "The hour, the sweet hour I forecast, Little brother!" (O Mother, Mary Mother, Is the hour sweet, between Hell and Heaven?) "He stops to speak, and he stills his horse, Sister Helen, But his words are drowned in the wind's course.
Side 230 - I wish that he were come to me, For he will come," she said. "Have I not prayed in Heaven? — on earth, Lord, Lord, has he not pray'd?
Side 231 - she said, " will seek the groves Where the lady Mary is, With her five handmaidens, whose names Are five sweet symphonies, Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen, Margaret, and Rosalys. • "Circlewise sit they, with bound locks And foreheads garlanded...
Side 464 - Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house ; and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
Side 229 - And still she bowed herself and stooped Out of the circling charm; Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm.
Side 65 - Outside it's merry in the wind's wake, Sister Helen, In the shaken trees the chill stars shake." "Hush, heard you a horse-tread as you spake, Little brother?" (O Mother, Mary Mother, What sound tonight, between Hell and Heaven?) "I hear a horse-tread, and I see, Sister Helen, Three horsemen that ride terribly.
Side 311 - Strange to think by the way, Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.

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