After the French Liberation of Italy (Arendts Collection corrected proof)

After the French Liberation of Italy (Arendts Collection corrected proof) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 With permission of the New York Public Library After the <lb/>French Liberation of Italy, <lb/>1859. Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1869 1 page DGR 1 page Arendts Collection, New York Public Library unruled beige none 10 x 6 1/2 in. Commentary

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This is probably the earliest surviving proof copy of DGR's 1859 sonnet, as DGR's notes and corrections to the poem suggest.

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Size smaller DGR's note to printer at upper right X In one line DGR's note to the printer to redesign the layout of the title. Further in DGR's note to the printer to indent line 2 DGR's mark after line 8 to separate the sonnet into octave and sestet <hi rend="sc">After the</hi> <lb/> <hi rend="c">French Liberation of Italy</hi>, <lb/> 1859. As when the last of the paid joys of love Has come and gone; and with a single kiss At length, and with one laugh of satiate bliss, The wearied man a minute rests above The wearied woman, no more urged to move In those long throes of longing; till they glide, Now lightlier clasped, each to the other's side, In joys past acting, not past dreaming of: — So Europe now beneath this paramour Lies for a little out of use, —full oft Submissive to his lust, a loveless whore. He wakes, she sleeps, the breath falls slow & soft. Wait: the bought body holds a birth within, An harlot's child, to scourge her for her sin! D.G.R. 1859