Mid-Rapture (fair copy, Boston Public Library Manuscript)

Mid-Rapture (fair copy, Boston Public Library Manuscript) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 By permission of the Boston Public Library Between Kisses Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1871 fair copy 1 page The manuscript is on a half sheet of paper. DGR Boston Public Library MS. acc. 86 Commentary

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Between Kisses. ------- O lovely, loving, & beloved love; Whose kiss seems still the first; whose summoning eyes, Even now, as for our love-world's new sunrise, Shed very dawn; whose voice, attuned above All modulation of the deep-bowered dove, Is like a hand laid softly on the soul; Whose hand is like a sweet voice to control Those worn tired brows it hath the keeping of:— What word can answer to thy word,—what gaze To thine, which thus absorbs within its sphere My worshipping face, till I am mirrored there, Grey-circled in a heaven of deep-drawn rays? What clasp, what kiss mine inmost heart can prove, O lovely, loving, and beloved love? -----------------