Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: Supreme Surrender (corrected draft, Princeton/Troxell collection)
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1869 (September or early October)
Type of Manuscript: corrected draft
Scribe: DGR
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Manuscript Addition: D. G. Rossetti
Editorial Description: non-autograph pencil signature (upper left)
Manuscript Addition: Supreme Surrounder
Editorial Description: Written at the top right.
- To all the spirits of Love that wander by
- Across the opened heaven of nuptial sleep
- My lady lay apparent; and the deep
- Called to the deep; and no man saw but I
- The bliss so long afar at length so nigh
- There lay disused. Methought proud Love must weep
- That by Fate's will he ever should make cheap
- The sacred hour for which the years did sigh.
-
Added Textthis same hand hands touch now warmed beneath my neck
- With the first touch of this warmed hand, (I said,)
- 10 How long did memory mock desire! And lo!
- Across my breast the abundant tresses hair doth flow
- was treasured for her sake
- Where one poor curl so long was treasured –
- H iers I was made, and mine she too can be!
- O Love, this service and this sovereignty!
Added Text
Where one
poor
shorn tress long held the heart
in check.
Where but one curl in hearts poor
shrine might deck
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