Selected poems
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“Sleep sank them lower than the tide of dreams, And their dreams watched them sink, and slid away.”
Source: The Essential Rossetti
Source: The Complete Poetical Works Of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Source: The Complete Poetical Works Of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
“Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.”
Source: Selected Poems and Translations
Source: Poems
Source: Selected poems
Source: The House of Life: A Sonnet-sequence
Source: The House of Life: A Sonnet-sequence
Source: Selected poems
“It is beautiful, the world, and life itself. I am glad I have lived.”
“The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.”
Source: Selected poems
“Places that are empty of you are empty of life.”
Source: The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s
“Beauty without the beloved is a like a sword through the heart.”
“Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell.”
Source: Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Anthology
“The sea hath no king but God alone.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Illustrated)
“The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness!”
Source: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, painter and poet
Source: Selected poems
“Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.”
“Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.”
Source: The House of Life: A Sonnet-sequence
“Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.”
Source: The House of Life: A Sonnet-sequence
“Her hair that lay along her back Was yellow like ripe corn.”
Source: The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti