Fold me fast, O God-snake of Eden! (<i>Sing Eden Bower!</i>… - Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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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, — -

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 10 April 1882) was an English poet, painter and translator.

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Alternative Names: Dante G. Rossetti • D. G. Rossetti • Dante Rossetti • Dante Gabriel Rosetti • D. G. Rosetti • Gabriel Charles Rossetti • Dante Gabriel Charles Rossetti • Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti • Rossetti • Rosseti • d.g. rossetti • Charles Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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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.

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

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

Fold me fast, O God-snake of Eden! (<i>Sing Eden Bower!</i>) What more prize than love to impel thee? Grip and lip my limbs as I tell thee! ... Lo! s… - Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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