Quote #9

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 lambent, lady, beams thy sovereign grace When the drear soul desires thee.

More from Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  1. Beauty like hers is genius.
  2. 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.
  3. 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…
  4. Each hour until we meet is as a bird That wings from far his gradual way along The rustling covert of my soul.
  5. A Sonnet is a moment's monument,- Memorial from the Soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour.
  6. Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.
  7. 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…
  8. Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell.

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