Manuscript Addition: Ashley 1410 (2)
Editorial Description: Library identification number
Manuscript Addition: This book contains entries 1873 and 75 by Gabriel. WMR. 1905
Editorial Description: WMR's description of the notebook's contents.
page: [1r]
Manuscript Addition: ASHLEY 1410 (2)
Editorial Description: Library identification number
Note: The page is blank except for ghosting from the previous page.
Manuscript Addition: 2*
Editorial Description: Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right.
page: [2v]
Note: The page contains various names, addresses, and other memoranda, all
written from bottom to top, as in the rest of the notebook.
All Saints
Hospital
Mrs. Nicholson
39 New Market Terrace
York Road
R L
14B Cantyre Pl
Kings Road
Chelsea
Bill £54 Jan. 1873
due 12 April
page: [3r]
Manuscript Addition: 3
Editorial Description: Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right followed by an x mark.
All Saints Hospital
82 M. St
- the prisoned sun
moon in steep
- cloud-fastnesses
-
and the S
- some day whose sun
- died in momentous me-
- -morable light
- some dying sun whose pyre
- Blazed with ------------ fire
page: [3v]
- Her hands lay open in the long
- deep grass
- And the sweet points looked through
- like rosy flowers
- Even as a child, of sorrow that we
- give
- The dead, but little at his heart can
- find,
- Since without need of thought in his clear mind
- Their turn it is to die &
- his to live
page: [4r]
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- As balmy as the breath of her
- you love
- When
laid deep between her breasts
- it comes to you.
- some
close-companioned inarticulate
some
voiceless hour
- When twofold silence was the
- song of love.
page: [4v]
Amen to the omen
One bliss but tarries for another birth
- As the last cowslip in spring-fields
- we see
- with the first corn-poppy.
page: [5r]
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- The golden kingcup-fields with
- silver edge
- Where the cow-parsley skirts
- the hawthorn hedge.
Tragical shadow in the realms of
fear
page: [5v]
Poetry is the apparent
image of unapparent
realities
The science of Theometry
- Still shoot the dead
drift down
page: [6r]
Manuscript Addition: 6
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She looked & saw their love at
the bottom of his heart
as
a diver sees a pearl at
the bottom of the sea
-
Added Textand we
- Whom trees that knew our sires
- shall cease to know
- And still stand silent
page: [6v]
Boar Hunt—Dumas
Pauline. page 53
Beroulde (man's name)
Bébelle
Pippo Pippistrello
Fiore
Farfalla la Fanciulla
page: [unnumbered]
page: [unnumbered]
page: [7r]
Manuscript Addition: 7
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Of natural foods she nothing
needs—
a gram of rice a day
Aure Isaure
Tabret & timbrel
Who knoweth not Love's
sounds & silences.
page: [7v]
Note: This is the passage—incorrectly quoted from
memory—that DGR at one point thought to add as a note to his sonnet.
When Leander was drowned, the
inhabitants of Sestos consecrated Hero's
lantern lantern to Anteros, & he
that had good
success in his
love should light the candle :
but never any man was
found
to light it
(Burton's Anat. Mel.
Pt. 3 Sec. 2 Numb.
6
Subs. 3)
page: [8r]
Manuscript Addition: 8
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- The winter garden beds all
- bare
- Save only when the redbreast
- lingering there
- Brings back one flower-like
- gleam
to[?]
mid the dark mould
page: [8v]
- Il faut que toute le lieux pour dit
- Car je ne t'aime plus, ma mie.
- Les larmes, comme le sang
- grisant ceux qui les font couler
Title—Aura & Aurora
page: [9r]
Manuscript Addition: 9
Editorial Description: Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right.
- The loves that from his hand
- have dropped away,
- Even as the beads of a told
- rosary
- Above the enthroning throat
- To say, “I must forget”
- Is to remember yet.
page: [9v]
Note: Seven lines of smudged pencil text in French, mostly indecipherable
[???] d'Ame
[?] de é[?] [???]
b[?] jamais, — de ces j[?]
qui, comme des [?]
plient le [?] blanc de
l'hiver et deplait la robe
verte du printemps.
- Hast ever said “Lo! I forget”
- Such thought was to remember yet.
page: [10r]
Manuscript Addition: 10
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Note: Eight lines of smudged pencil text in English, mostly indecipherable
[?] the town of [?]
[?] the descent to hell
[?]
the [?] no more
[?]
right up [?]
[?]
[?] charon's [?]
Lempriere
page: [10v]
- The upheaved forest-trees
- moss-grown today
- Whose roots are hillocks where
- the children play;
Note: This is DGR's verse translation of part of the French text he copies
into his notebook (see below page [12r]).
- where the poets all—
- Echoes of singing nature—
- list her call.
page: [11r]
Manuscript Addition: 11
Editorial Description: Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right.
Tâche de pleurer le plus que
tu pourras— on ne pleure ja-
mais assez la misanthropie
est faite des larmes qui sont
resteé au fond du coeur
Note: See DGR's partial English translation above, page [11v].
Les poetes sont les echoes de la
nature: la nature chante et
les poetes repetant ces chansons
page: [11v]
- “I hate” says over and above
- “This is a man
soul that I might love.”
- None lightly says “My friend”: even so
- Be jealous of that name “My foe.”
- An enemy for an enemy,
- But dogs for what a dog
may
can be.
- Hold those at heart, and time shall prove.
page: [12r]
Manuscript Addition: 12
Editorial Description: Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right.
Note: This is DGR's transcript of the text in Petronius that was the basis
for his epigram, which he drafts on the next page of this notebook.
And the Sibyl, you know. I saw
her with my own eyes at
Cumæ,
hanging in a jar; and when
the boys asked her,
“What would
you, Sibyl?” she answered,
“I
would die.” Petronius p. 245
Montchery Eroalde
page: [12v]
- “I saw the Sibyl at Cumæ”
- (one said) “with mine own eye.
-
Added Texthung in a cage
- She
hung in a jar
sat on a stage to read her
- rune
life-runes
- For all the passers-by.
- Said the boys, —‘What wouldst
- thou, Sibyl?’
- She answered, ‘I would die.’”
page: [13r]
Manuscript Addition: 13
Editorial Description: Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right.
On the first day the priest
could find no heart in the breast
and two
on the second day
—————(bad omen)
(Inscribed on urn)
Ave Domina Vale Domina
page: [13v]
- The
[?]
rosebud's blush that leaves it
- as it grows
- Into the
[?]
full-eyed fair unblushing rose;
Je suis furieux. Il ne me
[?] plus que cela
[?] voilá journaliste!
Regnault—apropos
of a private letter having got
into
the papers
page: [14r]
Manuscript Addition: 14
Editorial Description: Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right.
- Even as the dreariest swamps in
- sweet Springtide,
- Are most with maryflowers beatified.
- or reading in some sunny nook
- Where grass-blade shadows
- fall across your book.
page: [14v]
- The cuckoo-throb, the heartbeat
- of the Spring
- At her
foot
step the water hen
- Springs from her nook & skimming
- the clear stream
- Ripples its waters in a sinuous curve
- And dives again in safety.
page: [15r]
Manuscript Addition: 15
Editorial Description: Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right.
Elle ne pensait á rien—elle se
laissait vivre
Waterhay—meadow by
river
- Deep in the sun-searched
- grass the dragon-fly
- Hangs like a blue thread loosened
- from the sky:—
page: [15v]
-
I Would
to God
I knew there were
- a god to thank
- When thanks rise in me
- Tho blithe is Honfleur's echoing
- gloam
- When mothers call the children
- home
page: [16r]
Manuscript Addition: 16
Editorial Description: Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right.
- Blithe is the shout on Hon-
- fleur's sand
-
[?] As morning lights the
- sails to land.
- with furnaces
- Of instant flame & petals
- of pure light.
page: [16v]
Picture—Cavalier standing
before full length portrait
of
woman
A Foul Fool
page: [17r]
Note: This page is torn out and only the tops of the original first line of
scripts are visible
Manuscript Addition: 17
Editorial Description: Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right.
page: [17v]
Note: This page is torn out and only the fragment of the last line of the
original scripts is visible
rose is gone
page: [18r]
Manuscript Addition: 18
Editorial Description: Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right.
- Even as the rose tree's verdure
- left alone
- Will flush all ruddy when the
- rose is gone;
The approach of death wraps
us in clouds of contention
page: [18v]
Note: DGR quotes from memory the central idea from Swedenborg, which served
as the basis for his sonnet, and comprised most of the first line.
To grow old in Heaven is to
grow young—
(Swedenborg)
- If “to grow old in Heaven is to grow young,
- (As the Seer saw & said)
page: [19r]
Manuscript Addition: 19
Editorial Description: Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right.
Deleted TextBarnes's Hotel
Mississippi City
Mississippi
USA
Cleve(?)
query
meaning
Note: DGR's title for a poem he did not write.
The Press-Gang
A Satire
- And love & faith, the vehement heart of all.
-
Aye, mak/For I hate hatred worse than I hate you
Manuscript Addition: 20
Editorial Description: Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right.
Deleted Text
- Aye, make it up & we'll shake hands, we two
- For I hate hatred worse than I hate you.
- Aye, we'll shake hands, though scarce for love, we two:
- But I hate hatred worse than I hate you.
page: [20v]
The silly monkey - [jaded?]
half of a half of a fool
- And heavenly things in your
- eyes have place,
- Those breaks of sky in the
- twilight face.
page: [21r]
Manuscript Addition: 21
Editorial Description: Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right.
No skunk can get rid of
his own name by giving
it to another
Deleted TextAs he who falls asleep
on a hill & waking
sees a
tempest as he thinks
in the sky & forebodes
page: [21v]
Kelmscott
Dr. [?]
High chair
thick coats
socks
P[?]
wings
Blue jar
R's poems
stand of [?]
key
&c
toilet cover
page: [22r]
Manuscript Addition: 22
Editorial Description: Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right.
In receiving an unjust
insult, remember that
you can afford to
despise
it, while he who has
been guilty of it can
only despise
himself
for his act — thus the
advantage is yours.
page: [22v]
A friend is a very welcome
character in the drama
of life : An enemy
is
a second character not
unexpected, & to whom
no
reasonable objection
can be raised, but
page: [unnumbered]
page: [unnumbered]
page: [23r]
Manuscript Addition: 23
Editorial Description: Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right.
when these two parts
turn into each other
it is time to
drop
the curtain.
Fuseli was the vulture
to M. Angelo's eagle
page: [23v]
Note: See above, page [21r]
As one who falls asleep
on a hill & waking
sees sunset as
he
thinks in the sky &
forebodes a darkling
page: [24r]
Manuscript Addition: 24
Editorial Description: Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right.
night to travel further
but as the light widens
finds that it
is the
dawn of a new day
page: [24v]
Note: The memoranda on this page are scattered and run in various directions.
The sequence transcribed here runs clockwise from the top.
Manuscript Addition: x
Editorial Description: An x mark has been added beside the word “Lamp.”
Psyche
K
rugs
Dulcimer
Grande
Lamp
J's cushion
curtains in chest
Painting coat
J's photos bought
country
boots
[?]
Italian frame
curtains
marble frieze
&c
rose for hair
page: [25r]
Manuscript Addition: 25
Editorial Description: Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right.
- A test for Love. In every kiss sealed
- fast
- To feel the first kiss & forebode the last.
To deem each &c
To still &c & might be
&c
To feel each &c
As twere &c
& might be &c
page: [25v]
- Though all the rest go by
- Ditties & dirges of the unan-
- swering [unswerving[?]] sky
- For this can love, & does
- love, & loves me.
- For this can love, & does,
- & loves but me.
page: [26r]
Manuscript Addition: 26
Editorial Description: Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right.
K Rimano[?]
Drawing room
Blue column
Peacock screen
M. Angelo
&c
Contents of
J's chest
Brown Indian muslin
&c
Miss W Chalk [?]
St. Cecilia
Standing
saint
Quilting
Blue necklace
Braces
page: [26v]
Bill & Coo (Lovers' panels)
Dickens was an inspired
bagman—an articulate
counter-jumper
page: [27r]
Manuscript Addition: 27
Editorial Description: Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right.
- Sphinx-faced with unabashèd
- augury
To the anonymous pseudonymous
& caconominous
[?]
to the Ancient Order of Vermin
in highest & lowest
places.
another volume is now assigned.
page: [27v]
- I shut myself in with my soul,
- And the shapes come eddying
- forth.
- To God at best, to chance
- at worst,
- Give thanks for good things
- from thy soul.
page: [28r]
Manuscript Addition: 28
Editorial Description: Pagination (not by DGR) at upper right.
- Down on his silence the moon
- gazed
- Docile from the unmeasured dome;
- And as each gulf-scooped wave rang home
- With hoary crest upraised