One with Two Shadows Another Love Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 By permission of the Special Collections Library, Duke University One with Two Shadows Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1848 corrected fair copy 1 page DGR Duke University Library Rossetti Writings XXI. Eighteen Sonnets white ruled 6 3/8 x 8 1/8 in. Commentary
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This is the earliest of three surviving manuscripts of the sonnet. It represents the state of the poem as DGR wrote it in 1848 when they played at their game of writing bouts rimés sonnets. This manuscript is one of the eighteen by DGR and (apparently) WMR preserved in the Duke University Library. The numbers heading each of these eighteen sonnets suggest that they are selected from a larger group, perhaps comprising at least forty-four sonnets. The two other manuscripts, one at the British Library and the other at Yale, are later and carry the title “Another Love”.

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(8 m.) Notation at lower right indicating it was written in eight minutes. [ 19 [ printer's marks The right square bracket at the end is another printer's mark 19. One with Two Shadows. I thought of her face who is very gone so far: And the thought passing over;—to fall thence Seemed like a fall from spirit into sense Or from the Heaven of Heavens to a mere star. God and mine own self have ordained the bar 'Twixt her and me: so that if going hence I met her, I should know it was a dense Film of the brain—just nought, as phantoms are. Now, when I passed thy your threshold, and came in, And glanced where thou wert you were sitting, and did see Thy Your tresses in these braids and thy your hands thus, I knew that other figure, grieved and thin, That seemed/appeared seemed there and that was there, could not be, Thou it stood like God's wrath betwixen us. ------- G.