To Death, of His Lady (Fair copy manuscript, Eton College) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 To Death, of His Lady. Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1869 July or 1869 August (early) fair copy DGR DGR Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire 22.1 x 17.9 cm J. WHATMAN The manuscript is part of the fragment of a single letter from DGR to an unknown correspondent. The paper is folded into four sides, with the poem on one side, the verso blank, and the remains of the letter on the other two sides, most of which which are torn away at the top. Commentary
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This fair copy manuscript is held at Eton College. The letter accompanying the manuscript is a torn fragment, correspondent unknown.

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To Death, of His Lady. Death, of thee do I make my moan, Who hadst my lady away from me, Nor wilt assuage thine enmity Till with her life thou hast mine own; For since that hour my strength has flown. Lo! what wrong was her life to thee, Death? Two we were, and the heart was one; Which now being dead, dead I must be, Or seem alive as lifelessly As in the choir the painted stone, Death! The page is blank. The manuscript of the poem is accompanied by a torn letter fragment, addressee unknown.

is very short so I send it but dare say you won't have room.

I suppose in the last line of the original (page 113) “Coeur” stands for “Choeur”—else I can make nothing of it—

Ever yours D. G. Rossetti

P. S. Don't trouble to The page is torn so that only the last three lines of text remain. punctuation. Please kindly humour me in this.