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Her hair that lay along her back
Was yellow like ripe corn.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
If the light is
It is because God said 'Let there be light.'

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone,
But as the meaning of all things that are.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Unto the man of yearning thought
And aspiration, to do nought
Is in itself almost an act.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A Sonnet is a moment's monument,—
Memorial from the Soul's eternity
To one dead deathless hour.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Each hour until we meet is as a bird
That wings from far his gradual way along
The rustling covert of my soul.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Still we say as we go,—
"Strange to think by the way
Whatever there is to know,
That shall we know one day."

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Give honour unto Luke Evangelist;
For he it was (the aged legends say)
Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
I am not as these are, the poet saith
In youth's pride, and the painter, among men
At bay, where never pencil comes nor pem

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies?
Nay, who but infants question in such wise,
'T was one of my most intimate enemies.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,
Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns away
All shafts of shelterless tumultuous day.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
From perfect grief there need not be
Wisdom or even memory;
One thing then learned remains to me —
The woodspurge has a cup of three.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
You have been mine before - How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar, your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, - I knew it all of yore.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
When all desire at last and all regret
Go hand in hand to death, and all is vain,
What shall assuage the unforgotten pain
And teach the unforgetful to forget?

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
I have been here before,
But when or how I cannot tell:
I know the grass beyond the door,
The sweet, keen smell,
The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Sudden Light I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the light around the shore.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
If God in his wisdom have brought close
The day when I must die,
That day by water or fire or air
My feet shall fall in the destined snare
Wherever my road may lie.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
'We two,' 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.'

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
We two will lie i' the shadow of
That living mystic tree
Within whose secret growth the Dove
Is sometimes felt to be,
While every leaf that His plumes touch
Saith His Name audibly.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Imagining the reaction of the girls upon seeing their depiction in Turner's painting "Girls Surprised while Bathing":
I should think devilish surprised to see what Turner has made of them.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
'I saw the Sibyl at Cumae'
(One said) 'with mine own eye.
She hung in a cage, and read her rune
To all the passers-by.
Said the boys, What wouldst thou, Sibyl?
She answered, I would die. '

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
At 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,
So singly flagged the pulses of each heart.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough,
A-top on the topmost twig,—which the pluckers forgot, somehow,—
Forgot it not, nay, but got it not, for none could get it till now.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Around her, lovers, newly met
'Mid deathless love's acclaims,
Spoke evermore among themselves
Their heart-remember'd names;
And the souls mounting up to God
Went by her like thin flames.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti