7 Dante Gabriel Rossetti Quotes on Time

Dante Gabriel Rossetti quotes on time

4. 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? Where is Echo, beheld of no man, Only heard on river and mere- She whose beauty was more than human?- But where are the snows of yester-year?

6. A Sonnet is a moment's monument,- Memorial from the Soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour.

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

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

15. Eat thou and drink; to-morrow thou shalt die. Surely the earth, that's wise being very old, Needs not our help. Then loose me, love, and hold Thy sultry hair up from my face; that I May pour for thee this golden wine, brim-high, Till round the glass thy fingers glow like gold. We'll drown all hours: thy song, while hours are toll'd, Shall leap, as fountains veil the changing sky.

17. Watch thou and fear; to-morrow thou shalt die.

18. Now while we speak, the sun speeds forth: can I Or thou assure him of his goal? God's breath Even at this moment haply quickeneth The air to a flame; till spirits, always nigh Though screen'd and hid, shall walk the daylight here.