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The House of Life - Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The House of Life
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Table of Contents
Part I. YOUTH AND CHANGE
LOVE ENTHRONED
BRIDAL BIRTH
REDEMPTION
LOVESIGHT
HEART'S HOPE
THE KISS
NUPTIAL SLEEP
SUPREME SURRENDER
LOVE'S LOVERS
PASSION AND WORSHIP
THE PORTRAIT
THE LOVE-LETTER
THE LOVERS' WALK
ANTIPHONY
YOUTH'S SPRING-TRIBUTE
THE BIRTH-BOND
A DAY OF LOVE
BEAUTY'S PAGEANT
GENIUS IN BEAUTY
SILENT NOON
GRACIOUS MOONLIGHT
LOVE-SWEETNESS
HEART'S HAVEN
LOVE'S BAUBLES
PRIDE OF YOUTH
WINGED HOURS
MID-RAPTURE
HEART'S COMPASS
SOUL-LIGHT
THE MOONSTAR
LAST FIRE
HER GIFTS
EQUAL TROTH
VENUS VICTRIX
THE DARK GLASS
THE LAMP'S SHRINE
LIFE-IN-LOVE
THE LOVE-MOON
THE MORROW'S MESSAGE
SLEEPLESS DREAMS
SEVERED SELVES
THROUGH DEATH TO LOVE
HOPE OVERTAKEN
LOVE AND HOPE
CLOUD AND WIND
SECRET PARTING
PARTED LOVE
BROKEN MUSIC
DEATH-IN-LOVE
WILLOWWOOD
WITHOUT HER
LOVE'S FATALITY
STILLBORN LOVE
TRUE WOMAN
LOVE'S LAST GIFT
PART II. CHANGE AND FATE
TRANSFIGURED LIFE
THE SONG-THROE
THE SOUL'S SPHERE
INCLUSIVENESS
ARDOUR AND MEMORY
KNOWN IN VAIN
HEART OF THE NIGHT
THE LANDMARK
A DARK DAY
AUTUMN IDLENESS
THE HILL SUMMIT
THE CHOICE
II
OLD AND NEW ART
II. NOT AS THESE
III. THE HUSBANDMEN
SOUL'S BEAUTY
BODY'S BEAUTY
THE MONOCHORD
FROM DAWN TO NOON
MEMORIAL THRESHOLDS
HOARDED JOY
BARREN SPRING
FAREWELL TO THE GLEN
VAIN VIRTUES
LOST DAYS
DEATH'S SONGSTERS
HERO'S LAMP*
THE TREES OF THE GARDEN
'RETRO ME, SATHANA!'
LOST ON BOTH SIDES
THE SUN'S SHAME
MICHELANGELO'S KISS
THE VASE OF LIFE
LIFE THE BELOVED
A SUPERSCRIPTION
HE AND I
NEWBORN DEATH
THE ONE HOPE
Part I. YOUTH AND CHANGE
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INTRODUCTORY SONNET
A Sonnet is a moment's monument,—
Memorial from the Soul's eternity
To one dead deathless hour. Look that it be,
Whether for lustral rite or dire portent,
Of its own arduous fulness reverent:
Carve it in ivory or in ebony,
As Day or Night may rule; and let Time see
Its flowering crest impearled and orient.
A Sonnet is a coin: its face reveals
The soul,—its converse, to what Power 'tis due:—
Whether for tribute to the august appeals
Of Life, or dower in Love's high retinue,
It serve; or, 'mid the dark wharf's cavernous breath,
In Charon's palm it pay the toll to Death.
LOVE ENTHRONED
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I marked all kindred Powers the heart finds fair:—
Truth, with awed lips; and Hope, with eyes upcast;
And Fame, whose loud wings fan the ashen Past
To signal-fires, Oblivion's flight to scare;
And Youth, with still some single golden hair
Unto his shoulder clinging, since the last
Embrace wherein two sweet arms held him fast;
And Life, still wreathing flowers for Death to wear.
Love's throne was not with these; but far above
All passionate wind of welcome and farewell
He sat in breathless bowers they dream not of;
Though Truth foreknow Love's heart, and Hope foretell,
And Fame be for Love's sake desirable,
And Youth be dear, and Life be sweet to Love.
BRIDAL BIRTH
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As when desire, long darkling, dawns, and first
The mother looks upon the new-born child,
Even so my Lady stood at gaze and smiled
When her soul knew at length the Love it nursed.
Born with her life, creature of poignant thirst
And exquisite hunger, at her heart Love lay
Quickening in darkness, till a voice that day
Cried on him, and the bonds of birth were burst.
Now, shielded in his wings, our faces yearn
Together, as his fullgrown feet now range
The grove, and his warm hands our couch prepare:
Till to his song our bodiless souls in turn
Be born his children,