After the French Liberation of Italy (Arendts Collection uncorrected proof) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 With permission of the New York Public Library After the French Liberation of Italy Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1869 1 page DGR 1 page Arendts Collection, New York Public Library unruled beige none 9 3/8 x 6 1/8 in. Commentary
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This is one of the surviving revise proof copies of DGR's 1859 sonnet. It is identical to the proof in the Arizona State University library as well as to the other copies in the British Library, the Manx Museum, the Princeton library, and the Huntington.

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Sonnet by DG Rossetti—set up for privately printed poems of 1869 never published WMR's pencil note at the top of the page <hi rend="sc">After the French Liberation of Italy</hi> 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