Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: Ardour and Memory (holograph fair copy, Brotherton Collection, Leeds University)
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1873
Type of Manuscript: holograph pen and ink fair copy
Scribe: DGR
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- The cuckoo-throb, the heartbeat of the Spring;
- The rosebud's blush that leaves it as it grows
- Into the full-eyed fair unblushing rose;
- The summer clouds that visit every wing
- With fires of sunrise and of sunsetting;
- The furtive flickering streams to light re-born
- 'Mid airs new-fledged & valorous lusts of morn,
- While all the daughters of the daybreak sing:—
- These pleasure loves, and memory: and when flown
- 10 All joys, and through dark forest-boughs in flight
- The wind swoops onward brandishing the light,
- Even yet the rose-tree's verdure left alone
- Will flush all ruddy when the rose be gone;
- With ditties and with dirges infinite.
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