Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: Sister Helen (fair copy fragment, lines 225-238, British Library)
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1879 (circa)
Type of Manuscript: fair copy manuscript
Scribe: DGR
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Manuscript Addition: 12
Editorial Description: archival pagination number
- Her sobs I hear her sobs with the wind's sobs wed
- Sister Helen
- And h Her clasped hands hide rise to stretch from her bending head
- A head to hide till its grief lies dead: Pale hands crest where the bridal wreath sat red,
- Little brother
- O Mother Mary Mother
- Next wreath for death between Hell and Heaven.
- She may not speak, but she is nigh to swoon,
- Sister Helen,
- 10She lifts her lips & gasps on the moon
- O might I but hear her soul's blithe tune
- Little brother.
- O Mother Mary Mother
- A woman's wish prayer between Hell & Heaven
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
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