Quote #6
A Sonnet is a moment's monument,- Memorial from the Soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour.
More from 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 lig…
- 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…
- Tell me now in what hidden way is Lady Flora the lovely Roman? Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais, Neither of them the fairer woman? Wh…
- Beauty like hers is genius.
- 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.
- Even as the moon grows queenlier in mid-space When the sky darkens, and her cloud-rapt car Thrills with intenser radiance from afar,- So la…
- And the souls mounting up to God Went by her like thin flames.
- 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.