Youth's Antiphony (fair copy, Bancroft Collection)

Youth's Antiphony (fair copy, Bancroft Collection) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 Digital images courtesy of the Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Collection. Sonnet XIII<lb/> Youth's Antiphony Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1871 holograph pen and ink fair copy DGR DGR Delaware Art Museum, Bancroft Collection Box 22 Commentary

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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 <hi rend="i">Ballads and Sonnets</hi> .

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(20)x Notation in upper right corner Sonnet XIII<lb/> 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 know How fair you are.” “If fair enough to earn Your 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 these In 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.