blank page
1*
Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right.
The page contains various names, addresses, and other memoranda, all
written from bottom to top, as in the rest of the notebook..
A.C.S. Brit. Hist. Cockspur
Tadima(?) 4 C. Sq. S2
Mrs. Rispell 3
Little St. Andrew St.
Michele Fresco Aged 19
1 Grove Cottage
Northend
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
2
Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right.
the ideal
miracle of whose beauty
should
might suffice to make small men
great in art
and would
must
as it would have made the greatest [greater]
these poor sentence is
pages are are offered
What thing so pitiable
as poor dead days?
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and passionate youth
In dreams of love with some
strong golden hair
Still to his shoulder clinging
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3
Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right.
I deemed the raiment of
my Hope was grey
So far I viewed her
There is an x mark above the first word (“How”) in the next line.
How callous is the clock
with its last stroke
The second scrap on this page is marked with an “X”.
Sweet love, but O dread loving
after love
In absence! (5)
Short life made long with pain
Youth's sweet well-being
bien être
An “x” has been written beside the word “Short” above.
4
Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right.
Patience is the only game
for one, but two ca come
to [?] double[?]
out of Joy[?]
& two can play at that
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Days when the characters
of men came out as strongly
as secret
writing exposed to fire
7
Number at upper left (DGR's script).
Not by thy measure must
thou mete know my love
and mirrored so
She in that trance
dream & I within
her eyes
The two entries are written in opposite directions.
5
Pagination at upper right. There is a circled ampersand on the left of the page.
3 Porteous Road
Paddington Green
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olden
Harl's Whole Meal Bread
& 3 Albert Mansions
Victoria Street
The text on this page and the next are written upside down. The page on the right (5v) is transcribed before the one on the left (6r).
DGR has a drawing of a bassinet below the text.
E giovine il Signore
Ed ama quelle cose
Che Amor dispose
In cuore all' amore.
Quel che piu vuole
[indecipherable text
Ancor non osa
Ahi piu che il sole
Piu ch' ogni rosa
La cara cosa
Figliuola si gioire.
6
Pagination at upper right.
E giovin il Signore
Ed ama tutte cose
[indecipherable text]
[indecipherable text]
Che [indecipherable text]
amor nascose
Che mostragli
amore.
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E giovine il Signor
Ed ama [indecipherable text] tante cose
Le rose, [indecipherable text] le
spose,
Quanta gli dona
amor.
The text on this page and the next are written upside down. The page on the right (6v) is transcribed before the one on the left (7r).
Deh trionfando
Non farne prova
Oimeì! che quando
Gioja più giova
Allor si trova
Presso al finire
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2
Bella figliuola
Guardalo in viso
Senza
Più che parola
Senza sorriso
Guardalo fiso
Quando sei sola
[?]Guarda a gradire.
7
Pagination at upper right.
My young love's
the lover
Of all
sweets around, above,
Of sweets the spring
clouds
skies & of all
Of indecipherable text
they cover
[indecipherable text]
Of strength, of songs, & of love.
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Welsh
Smoked
Salmon
The text on this page is written upside down.
E giovine il Signore
Ed ama molte
cose—
I canti, le rose,
La forza e l'amore
Per uno ch'è buono
Molti non lo sono.
x x x
Prendilo in braccio
Adesso o mai —
Per più mi taccio
Di quel che fai Che tu lo sai
Bacilo e l'avrai
Ma non lo dire.
8
Pagination at upper right.
Faint—like a flower the
attenuated dream
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labour-laden cheer
Hath this been thus before?
And shall not this [indecipherable text] of
shall this coming night
As
Still to our hand finds
thus this day restore
In death's despite
And sense, sound, sight, yield
love's delight once more?
9
Pagination at upper right.
Hath this been thus before?
And shall not thus Time's
eddying flight
our hope
Still to our hand this hour
restore
In death's despite
And day & night, yield love's delight
once more?
DGR's sketch of a design for a bracelet comes
after the memoranda. DGR has drawn a flower between the dates Sept. 1857 and April 1868.
The first memoranda refers to the poet W. J. Linton, whose parody of Poe,
“Part of an Unfinished Ghoul Poem”, DGR copied into
this notebook (see below pages [21v]-[22r]). The second notation appears to be
an inscription that DGR intended for the bracelet he sketched here. The dates suggest
that the bracelet was being designed for Jane Morris.
Linton. New haven Conn.
U.S.A.
Sept. 1857 April 14 1868
Parelli
5 Greek St.
DGR's sketch for a brooch design is made below the memorandum.
An illegible memorandum runs along the inside of the page next to the
gutter of the notebook. The other memorandum, partially obscured, is written crosswise.
10
Pagination at upper right.
[?] 13 — 26
I would that I would
find in thee some fault
That I might love thee
still in spite of it
The text is very difficult to decipher, nor is it at all clear that the
first six words, here represented as separated on two distinct lines, might
not be otherwise organized.
—la palis revenants—
Et la crenesse aux
beaux cheveux flottants
Qui - ne
revient jamais
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the wading moon
11
Pagination at upper right.
x
An x has been written above the first crossed out word.
with the fire put forth
Its writhing fingers of pure
flame
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The starlings sang the sun
to sleep
x
There is an x mark below the first line along the left margin.
O happy he to whom first
love & last
Are but one love for ever!
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And lo! his chamber
is thy heart & mine.
12
Pagination at upper right.
after K. of K.
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A lady's here by a dark steed brought
S. H.
So darkly clad I saw her not
See her now or never see aught
L. B.
The forehead veiled & the
veiled throat of Death
Shadows & shoals that
edge eternity
Ahi mè Contaro!
Tutto è in vano,
Prendimi a
mano
In libertà
13
Pagination at upper right.
Ah!—ma—
Se si sta
Così colà?
Non si sa
Se non si va.
And winds that sweep the
winter-bitten wold
Thou that
If once beyond thy real
self dost see
A self Ideal, bid thine
heart beware
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What angel shadowed door
Or threshold of what wind-fanned
threshing floor
14
Pagination at upper right.
Or a threshold of wing-winnowed
threshing floor
Hath known
Hath such life guests as are the feet of Love
And Youth with one bright
spray of golden hair
Still to his shoulder clinging
since that last
Embrace wherein his sweet
love held him fast
As on the white floaming blue of
summer skies
Upon the blue line of the
Rests on a foamless sea
15
Pagination at upper right.
x
An x mark is written after the line “plaintive days”
For “My Lady”
Her mouth is a perpetual feast
of love
(Its breath smile, voice, lips &c.)
plaintive days
The haggard hills
DGR's sketch of an architectural scene appears below the text next to
the gutter of the notebook.
x
An x mark has been added beside the word “knowledge.”
To know perchance that we
do not know
is the first step to knowledge
16
Pagination at upper right.
x
An x mark has been added below the word “woe”
The day is dark
as the night
—These dead
And whether they
too were we
And what it
was that they dared
bleak un-
- spoken woe
There is an x mark written at the end of the second line on this page and below the word “oracle” in the last line.
In the air the dragonfly
Hangs like a blue thread
loosened from the sky
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Oh thou of Love's all-penetrative spell
Amulet talisman & oracle
17
Pagination at upper right.
As a great man with whom
years or health are failing
looks on the
useless youth
that pass him & thinks what
he would do
with their
treasure—so &c.
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Stewart & Brown
56 Eagle St Holborn
An x mark is written beside the word “streams”
Lent—lilies—Daffodils
Furtive flickering stream
T. F. Dupré Esq
5 Fowkes Buildings
Great Tower St
18
Pagination at upper right.
H G. &H Smith
wine merchants
4 St Pauls Church St
Port
48/—
Sherry 36/—
T. F. Dupré Esq
5 Fowkes Buildings
Gt Tower St
EC
Claret
Leroc /65
Leroc of 1865
Claret 55/—
Niersteiner
25/—
Dinner Claret 19/—
mouth like the lips of a wound
blank page
19
Pagination at upper right.
Gregor Metheun
Gervase
Maguelonne
Smith (H. G.)
wine merchants
4 St Pauls Church Yd
Port
& Sherry
blank page
20
Pagination at upper right.
Se penchant un moment,
elle jeta les
premieres notes
sur la feuille vierge
Ensuite elle
empoigna
l'arche [sic] du violon pour
realiser son
rêve, mais
avant de découcher
l'instrument suspendu
21
Pagination at upper right.
elle reste encore quelques
instants à
ècouter l'oiseau
inspirateur , pendant que
sa main gauche
c[ou]rait
sur les cordes cherchant le
motif complet. C'était
un
mariage des voix de la nature
et de l'âme, - et
l'aube d'une
creation mystique -
On this page and the next DGR quotes the entirety of the poem by William
James Linton that was published in 1875 in his volume Pot-Pourri (page 23).
Said we then—the two
then—
“Ah, can it
Have been that the woodlandish
ghouls
The pitiful, the merciful ghouls
To bar up our way, & to
22
Pagination at upper right.
ban it
From the secret that lies in
these wolds—
From the thing that lies hidden
in these wolds—
Have drawn up the spectre of a
planet
From the limbo of lunary souls
This sinfully scintillant planet
From the hell of the planetary souls.
To say (for once) to prove
beyond a sham
That I your most
obedient servant
am
23
Pagination at upper right.
x
An x mark is written above the word “Think” in the first line and after the word “day” in the fourth line.
Think through this silence
how when we are old
We two shall think upon
this place & day
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thy lifted eyes
Where all the daughters
of the daybreak sing.
The page has no text, only some doodles and drawing marks.
The page has some drawing marks plus a sketch of a tree.
24
Pagination at upper right.
[Drawing and a sketch of a tree]
67 Harwood
Road
The day is dark &
the night
To him that wd
search their
heart
No lips of cloud
that will part
Nor morning song
in the light.
Only gazing alone
To him wild shadows
are shown
Deep under deep
unknown
And height above
unknown height
The text is written above some sketches that are only faintly discernible.
25
Pagination at upper right.
The past is over & fled;
Named new we name it the old
Thereof some tale hath been told
Yet no word comes from the dead
Whether as bond or free
They dwell wherever they be
Or whether they too were we
Or by what spell they have sped
x
An x mark is written above the first word in the first line.
An ant sting's prickly at
first
But the pain soon dies away
A gnat sting's worse the
next day
But a wasp 'tis sting's the
worst
26
Pagination at upper right.
I would that I could find in
you some fault
That I might love you still in
spite of it
But Love our lord Love is just
nor will remit
Aught of your dues whom most
he would exalt
And therefore hath he made
my heart's dark vault
He is my heart's [indecipherable text]
In all men's sight unworthier
being lit
With thy [?]
Even with thy loving soul's [?]
fine
perquisite
Of fiery chrysoprase & bright basalt
27
Pagination at upper right.
Yet will I nowise shrink, but
at Love's shrine
Myself within the light his brow
doth dart
Will set the flashing jewels of thy
heart
In that dull chamber where they deign
to shine
Even in the honour of thine excellencies
Proud of my heart to show how rife it is
Atheling. Hélie de Saint Saen----------
Berold Adelais----------
Hampreston Marnbrull
(real places) Woodbay----------
Gregor Strath Deavor
Monchensey Monhault
28
Pagination at upper right.
Ninian (man's name)
Glenstrae Ardpagowan
Teo Tolzi
Rowallane
Muriel Gervase
Pharalide
Phara
ailde (woman)
Staith — a quay or loading place
Even as some great souled man,
deep - bowed with stress
Of dark disastrous eld, on reckless
passing youth
May gaze, and murmur with self pity
& ruth
Ah me if I thy treasure might possess
And
Such blessing of mine all coming years should
bless
That in thy hand speeds to the common goal,
Who, with the thought, feels breathe against
his soul
The last line of the “Session of the Poets”
prose description is written crosswise to the rest of the text and
towards the gutter.
29
Pagination at upper right.
The hour swift-paced of nearer nothingness
Session of
the Poets
There sat looking
moony
conceited
& narrow
Buchanan who
finding
when
foolish & young
Apollo asleep
in a coster
girl's
barrow
straight dragged
him along to
see somebody hung
The texts on this page and the next appear to be drafts toward stanzas for
the poem “Soothsay” that DGR was writing at this time.
Yet still
lo! as we
strive & strain
The future is onward
rolled
In the great snake's
fold on fold
Shorn links of an
And [??] for a
endless chain
snake like chain
Till that spark of
Ah! shall not
the life forth hurled
Again in new flesh be
furled
And what we made of
the world
Shall fall
Fall back on ourselves
again
30
Pagination at upper right.
The Present is but
one coil
Of a snake wherein
we strive
It clings to our limbs
alive
And yet is not But drops then
dead to the soil
And yet it keeps
as it goes
Some print of our
mouldy throes
Some change from
the vanished toil
Whose crown it
wins for a spoil
x
An x mark has been written above the word “mad” in the first line and above the word “then” in the third line.
And mad revulsion of the
tarnished light
then to be a ministering
angel & to lie howling
are
varieties of one
function
31
Pagination at upper right.
x
X marks have been placed to the left of the first and third lines.
His face, in Fortune's favours
sunn'd
Was radiantly rubicund
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the bitter stage of life
where friend & foe are parts
alternated
The brook, hurling its waters
downward from the mountain, had
in this
spot encountered a barrier
rock, over which it had made its
way by
2 distinct leaps. The first
fall, across which a magnificent
old
oak, stunting out from the
further bank, partly extended
itself as
if to shroud the dusky
stream of the cascade, might be
31
Pagination at upper right.
about 12 feet high; the broken waters
were received in a beautiful
stone
basin, almost as regular as if hewn
by a sculptor; and after
wheeling
around its flinty margin, they made
a second precipitous
dash, through
a dark &narrow chasm at least 50
feet in
depth, & from thence, in a
huried but comparatively a
more
smooth course, escaped to join the
lake.
The page is entirely taken up by a sketch of some trees. It is possible that these sketches are connected to the descriptive passage on the previous page.
Brief sketch for earrings and necklace designs.
33
Pagination at upper right.
The page is entirely taken up by a sketch of some trees.
The page may originally have had a sketch of some sort, but it is now
indistinct, the graphite having been worn away.
34
Pagination at upper right.
x
An x mark has been placed above the word “wild.”
or that some last
Wild pageant of the accumulated
past
Upon the vision of Flashed on the
Which clangs & flashes for a drowning man
35
Pagination at upper right.
take old empty
bottle of R's copal
Fill it 2 thirds
Harlum
S[?]
1 teaspoonful
nut oil
10 drops Salad oil
Fill up
the
rest of bottle
with Spike oil
Set it before fire
till
warm &
shake up
Alas! and where do the foemen hide
That nought may I see on either side
Oh God & perchance I pass them
by
And here with tomorrow's dawn
no eye
Could That gazed could sense
where the dead shall
lie
36
Pagination at upper right.
x
An x mark has been added below the word “valorous.” in the last line.
In vain I search from side to side
Oh God & where do the powers hide
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With airs new-fledged &
valorous lusts of morn
All that he might do rushed
through his
soul—passion &
wrongdoing & despotic
will,—
as with wide eye fixed on
his friend &
scarcely quivering
mouth half hidden in his beard
he acted it
through in his soul
& cast it out.
37
Pagination at upper right. An x mark is written below the page number.
A face that like a governing star
Gathers & garners from all things
that are
Their silent penetrative tenderness
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The glass stands empty of
all things it knew
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Epiphanies
O thou whose name, being
alone, aloud
I utter oft; and while [?]
though thou
art not there
Toward thy
ine
painted imaged
presence kiss the air
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La maestrice di Michelangelo
The story of Arria and Paetas is narrated in Pliny, Epistulae 3.16.
38
Pagination at upper right.
Suicide of Arria and Paetus - temp.
Nero. AD 66 — A. ll.
819
Arria, the wife of Paetus, when her
husband was sentenced for
con-
-spiring with Scribonianus against
Nero, gave herself the
first
blow, & handed him the dagger
with the words,
It is not
painful. / Merivale v. 8 p. 111.
Sketch of tree; see sketches on pages [32v] and [33v].
Digestive Bis-
cuits
M Dordell
60 George St
Edinburgh
Sketch of a tree.
39
Pagination at upper right.
x
An x mark has been added to the left of the first word in the first line.
As when a man whose
brain is all in flame
Out of himself with wonder
of new woe
Looks round upon all
things he yet doth
know
And on a [??] feels[?]
[?] the same
The text transcribed at the bottom of this page actually begins at the top of the manuscript and continues along the right margin.
40
Pagination at upper right.
oscuro
pero
futuro
duro
venturo
congiuro
figuro
[?]
witherwind
bindweed
dropwort
(hemlock)
240 V.B.R.
Miss W. 8£ payable to 1st Jan
41
Pagination at upper right.
You could not tell the starlings
from the leaves
But for the whirr within
Then one great puff of wings
and the swarm heaves
Away with all its din
The notes on this page may be for a dinner party.
B. Ms. K
K Mrs H
D H D L
R Miss M
Dr H Mrs R
Dr H. Mrs H
R. Miss M
H. L.
K Mrs R
B. Mrs. K
She bound her green
sleeve on my helm
A
Sweet pledge of love's
sweet meed
Warm was her
bared arm round my neck
As well she bade
me speed
And her kiss clings
still between my
lips
Heart's heat & strength
at need.
42
Pagination at upper right.
x
An x mark appears to the left of the words “Holm &Hirst.”
I saw the love which is my life
flow past
Twixt shadowed reaches like a
murmuring stream
Holm & Hirst
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Mrs Townley 127 Camden St NW
There is a little journeying cloud beyond
the hill
Whose goal seems further
than the placid
fiery west
With all its fire
and in possession still
A further reach of longing
The first line transcribed below appears along the right margin of the manuscript page.
43
Pagination at upper right.
The luxury of wielding words
26 3/8 x 36 3/4
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Civil Service
Commision
preliminary
examination
in
reading
writing
only
Hanford 224 Kings Rd
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Legros
24 Addison Gdns North