The House of Life

By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The book on Ancient, Classical, and Medieval Poetry begins with epic poetry from ancient Babylonia and Greece. Poetry did not grow during the Middle Ages, but it saw a renaissance during the Renaissance. Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, often known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was a member of the Rossetti family and an English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator. With William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, he created the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848. Rossetti went on to become a key inspiration for the movement's second generation of painters and authors, most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. His art impacted European Symbolists and he was a key figure in the Aesthetics movement.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Nov 21, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547419747

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life

EAN 8596547419747

DigiCat, 2022

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Table of Contents

Part I. YOUTH AND CHANGE

LOVE ENTHRONED

BRIDAL BIRTH

REDEMPTION

LOVESIGHT

HEART'S HOPE

THE KISS

NUPTIAL SLEEP

SUPREME SURRENDER

LOVE'S LOVERS

PASSION AND WORSHIP

THE PORTRAIT

THE LOVE-LETTER

THE LOVERS' WALK

ANTIPHONY

YOUTH'S SPRING-TRIBUTE

THE BIRTH-BOND

A DAY OF LOVE

BEAUTY'S PAGEANT

GENIUS IN BEAUTY

SILENT NOON

GRACIOUS MOONLIGHT

LOVE-SWEETNESS

HEART'S HAVEN

LOVE'S BAUBLES

PRIDE OF YOUTH

WINGED HOURS

MID-RAPTURE

HEART'S COMPASS

SOUL-LIGHT

THE MOONSTAR

LAST FIRE

HER GIFTS

EQUAL TROTH

VENUS VICTRIX

THE DARK GLASS

THE LAMP'S SHRINE

LIFE-IN-LOVE

THE LOVE-MOON

THE MORROW'S MESSAGE

SLEEPLESS DREAMS

SEVERED SELVES

THROUGH DEATH TO LOVE

HOPE OVERTAKEN

LOVE AND HOPE

CLOUD AND WIND

SECRET PARTING

PARTED LOVE

BROKEN MUSIC

DEATH-IN-LOVE

WILLOWWOOD

WITHOUT HER

LOVE'S FATALITY

STILLBORN LOVE

TRUE WOMAN

LOVE'S LAST GIFT

PART II. CHANGE AND FATE

TRANSFIGURED LIFE

THE SONG-THROE

THE SOUL'S SPHERE

INCLUSIVENESS

ARDOUR AND MEMORY

KNOWN IN VAIN

HEART OF THE NIGHT

THE LANDMARK

A DARK DAY

AUTUMN IDLENESS

THE HILL SUMMIT

THE CHOICE

II

OLD AND NEW ART

II. NOT AS THESE

III. THE HUSBANDMEN

SOUL'S BEAUTY

BODY'S BEAUTY

THE MONOCHORD

FROM DAWN TO NOON

MEMORIAL THRESHOLDS

HOARDED JOY

BARREN SPRING

FAREWELL TO THE GLEN

VAIN VIRTUES

LOST DAYS

DEATH'S SONGSTERS

HERO'S LAMP*

THE TREES OF THE GARDEN

'RETRO ME, SATHANA!'

LOST ON BOTH SIDES

THE SUN'S SHAME

MICHELANGELO'S KISS

THE VASE OF LIFE

LIFE THE BELOVED

A SUPERSCRIPTION

HE AND I

NEWBORN DEATH

THE ONE HOPE

Part I. YOUTH AND CHANGE

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INTRODUCTORY SONNET

A Sonnet is a moment's monument,—

Memorial from the Soul's eternity

To one dead deathless hour. Look that it be,

Whether for lustral rite or dire portent,

Of its own arduous fulness reverent:

Carve it in ivory or in ebony,

As Day or Night may rule; and let Time see

Its flowering crest impearled and orient.

A Sonnet is a coin: its face reveals

The soul,—its converse, to what Power 'tis due:—

Whether for tribute to the august appeals

Of Life, or dower in Love's high retinue,

It serve; or, 'mid the dark wharf's cavernous breath,

In Charon's palm it pay the toll to Death.

LOVE ENTHRONED

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I marked all kindred Powers the heart finds fair:—

Truth, with awed lips; and Hope, with eyes upcast;

And Fame, whose loud wings fan the ashen Past

To signal-fires, Oblivion's flight to scare;

And Youth, with still some single golden hair

Unto his shoulder clinging, since the last

Embrace wherein two sweet arms held him fast;

And Life, still wreathing flowers for Death to wear.

Love's throne was not with these; but far above

All passionate wind of welcome and farewell

He sat in breathless bowers they dream not of;

Though Truth foreknow Love's heart, and Hope foretell,

And Fame be for Love's sake desirable,

And Youth be dear, and Life be sweet to Love.

BRIDAL BIRTH

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As when desire, long darkling, dawns, and first

The mother looks upon the new-born child,

Even so my Lady stood at gaze and smiled

When her soul knew at length the Love it nursed.

Born with her life, creature of poignant thirst

And exquisite hunger, at her heart Love lay

Quickening in darkness, till a voice that day

Cried on him, and the bonds of birth were burst.

Now, shielded in his wings, our faces yearn

Together, as his fullgrown feet now range

The grove, and his warm hands our couch prepare:

Till to his song our bodiless souls in turn

Be born his children, when