Dante Gabriel Rossetti Quotes

If God in his wisdom have brought close
The day when I must die,
That day by water or fire or air
My feet shall fall in the destined snare Wherever my road may lie.

From the fixed lull of Heaven she saw Time like a pulse shake fierce Through all the worlds.

Around her, lovers, newly met 'Mid deathless love's acclaims, Spoke evermore among themselves Their heart-remember'd names; And the souls mounting up to God
Went by her like thin flames.

Places that are empty of you are empty of life.

Drat verse,
And steam, and Paris, and the fins of Time!

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

Fold me fast, O God-snake of Eden!
(Sing Eden Bower!)
What more prize than love to impel thee?
Grip and lip my limbs as I tell thee!
...
Lo! sweet Snake, the travail and treasure, — -

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.

Still we say as we go,— "Strange to think by the way
Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day."

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.

Your eyes smile peace.

I am not as these are, the poet saith
In youth's pride, and the painter, among men
At bay, where never pencil comes nor pem

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 lights around the shore.

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

Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh
The same desire and mystery,
The echo of the whole sea's speech.