Prose Exhibit → Collection Intro → Browse Collection → Document → → Transcript

Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription

Document Title: Phrenograph of Thomas Woolner (manuscript)
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1850
Type of Manuscript: holograph draft

The full Rossetti Archive record for this transcribed document is available.

Image of page [1] page: [1]
more about Phrenograph of Thomas Woolner
  • 1 Small
  • 2 Mod
  • 3 large
  • 4 large
  • 5 mod
  • 6 mod
  • 7 rather large
  • 8 mod
  • 9 mod
  • 10 small
  • 11 mod
  • Min S[?]
  • 12 small
  • 13 large
  • 14 large
  • 15 mod
  • 16 large
  • 17 very large
  • 18 mod
  • 19 mod
  • 20 full
  • 21 mod
  • 22 mod


    • Column Break


  • 23 mod
  • 24 mod
  • 25 large
  • 26 [blank]
  • 27 full
  • 28 large
  • 29 full
  • 30 large
  • 31 [blank]
  • 32 [blank]
  • 33 full
  • 34 large
PRB
Arc Head 20 3/4
Temp Lymphatic
D.G.R. T.W.
Image of page [2] page: [2]
Manuscript Addition: These lines are by Woolner, & in his / writing—on the other page is a phrenolo / gical table—being I think applicable to the / N C set down in a character of Woolner / drawn up by Donovan.
Editorial Description: WMR's note
more about The Question Unanswered
The Question Unanswered
  • When my hushed heart weighs heavily—
  • My brain lies fixed and cold,
  • When the changes are all ended which
  • The Earth had on me rolled,
  • Will utter torpor bind me
  • And total darkness blind me,
  • Or will illusions still sweep past
  • As they were wont of old.
  • Shall I feel if some friend lift my hand
  • 10And wet it with a tear,
  • As thoughts press on—how that same hand
  • [blank] his with friendly cheer
  • Shall i feel them pass by death
  • With mute step and timid breath;
  • Or, be merely spotted by the shades
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Source File: 30-1850.sangms.rad.xml
Copyright: Published with permission of Iziko Museums of Cape Town