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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, painter, and translator, born on May 12, 1828, and died on April 9, 1882. He was a prominent member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of English poets, painters, and critics who were inspired by the medieval and early Renaissance art. Rossetti's poetry and paintings are renowned for their vivid imagery and romantic themes.

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Famous Dante Gabriel Rossetti Quotes

“Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: So this winged hour is dropt to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.”

Heart Song Growth Hours Silence Sun Sky Blue Dragons Thread Deathless Inarticulate

Author:Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:And as the last slow sudden drops are shedFrom sparkling eaves when all the storm has fled,So singly flagged the pulses of each heart.”

Heart Long Lasts Sweet Kissing Smart Storm Length Pulse Sparkling

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Love, which is quickly kindled in the gentle heart, seized this man for the fair form that was taken from me, the manner still hurts me. Love which absolves no beloved one from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, as thou seest, it does not leave me yet”

Men Heart Doe Stills Form Hurt Taken Fairs Gentle Beloved Charm Leaving Me Hurt Me

Author:Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“Beauty without the beloved is a like a sword through the heart.”

Author:Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd With the dead boughs that winter still must bind, And whom today the Spring no more concerns. Behold, this crocus is a withering flame; This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art. Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them, Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem The white cup shrivels round the golden heart.”

Source: Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Anthology

About the Author

Born: May 12, 1828
Died: April 9, 1882
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 37

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The House of Life: A Sonnet-sequenceRelated source material

The Complete Poetical Works Of Dante Gabriel RossettiRelated source material

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An AnthologyRelated source material

Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Illustrated)Related source material

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The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860sRelated source material

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