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By Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Between the hands, between the brows, Between the lips of Love-Lily, A spirit is born whose birth endows. My blood with fire to burn through me; Who breathes upon my gazing eyes, Who laughs and murmurs in mine ear, At whose least touch my colour flies, And whom my life grows faint to hear.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born in London. His works include Sir Hugh the Heron: A Legendary Tale in Four Parts (1843), Poems (1869), which was published in several editions with slightly different content, Ballads and Sonnets (1882), Ballads and Narrative Poems, and Sonnets and Lyrical...
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born in London. His works include Sir Hugh the Heron: A Legendary Tale in Four Parts (1843), Poems (1869), which was published in several editions with slightly different content, Ballads and Sonnets (1882), Ballads and Narrative Poems, and Sonnets and Lyrical Poems (1894).
Rossetti's poetry often features themes of love, beauty, death, and the supernatural. His work is characterized by sensuous imagery, rich symbolism, and a musicality that makes it well-suited for reading aloud. William Blake, John Keats, and the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri were major influences on his poetry. He also drew inspiration ...
By Dante Alighieri. Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. on the 9th of June 1290. Upon a day, came Sorrow in to me, Saying, ‘I’ve come to stay with thee a while’; And I perceived that she had ushered Bile. And Pain into my house for company. Wherefore I said, ‘Go forth – away with thee!’.
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Not in thy body is thy life at all. But in this lady's lips and hands and eyes; Through these she yields thee life that vivifies. What else were sorrow's servant and death's thrall. Look on thyself without her, and recall. The waste remembrance and forlorn surmise. That liv'd but in a dead-drawn breath of sighs.
The Blessed Damozel. ‘The Blessed Damozel’ by Dante Gabriel Rossetti is a ballad that is dedicated to the love between a woman trapped in heaven and a man stuck on Earth. The blessed Damozel lean'd out. From the gold bar of Heaven: Her blue grave eyes were deeper much. Than a deep water, even. Period: 19th Century.
