O thou who art not as I am Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1850
abbaab iambic tetrameter lyric
<artist/> <location/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>The lyric is inserted as part of the story <xref doc="a.9p-1850.s121.raw"> <title level="wrk">“St. Agnes of Intercession” . In that context, the poem is clearly fucntioning as a parodic text. To the degree that DGR's story is itself a parodic treatment of some of his own most cherished aesthetic preoccupations—as it most definitely is—this poem is a piece of comical self-reflection quite in the spirit of a later work like “Parted Love!”

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Virginia Fair Copy Manuscript Text For glosses on this poem see the “Literary” commentary section of the general commentary to “St. Agnes of Intercession” . Virginia Fair Copy Manuscript Text The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, vol. 1 (1886) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1886 0 St. Agnes of Intercession (Virginia Fair Copy MS) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1870 0 Notebook Pages (Duke Library Note Book II) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1847-1848, 1878-1880 0 The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1911) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1911 0