Youth's Antiphony (fair copy, Bancroft Collection)Dante Gabriel Rossetti1Digital images courtesy of the Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R.
Bancroft Collection.Sonnet XIII Youth's AntiphonyDante Gabriel Rossetti1871holograph pen and ink fair copyDGRDGRDelaware Art Museum, Bancroft CollectionBox 22
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This is a late fair copy of the sonnet, as the title clearly indicates. It
was probably printer's copy for the (initial) publication in DGR's 1881
Ballads and Sonnets.
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(20)xNotation in upper right cornerSonnet XIII Youth's Antiphony.-------“I love you, sweet: how can you ever learn How much I love you?” “You I love even so, And so I learn it.” “Sweet, you cannot knowHow fair you are.” “If fair enough to earnYour love, so much is all my love's concern.”“My love grows hourly, sweet.” “Mine too doth grow; Yet love seemed full so many hours ago!”Thus lovers speak, till kisses claim their turn.Ah! happy they to whom such words as theseIn youth have served for speech the whole day long, Hour after hour, remote from the world's throng,Work, contest, fame, all life's confederate pleas,—What while Love breathed in sighs and silences Through two blent souls one rapturous undersong.