<title level="doc">Ardour and Memory

<title level="doc">Ardour and Memory Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 © Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Ardour & Memory DGR 1879 1 page DGR Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Tinker 1800 white 11.4 x 17.9 cm The manuscript is reproduced in facsimile in Sharp, <hi rend="i">DGR. A Record and a Study</hi> , 426 . Commentary

Introduction

As the signature and date at the end suggests, and despite Sharp's note in the upper left corner, this is a fair copy that DGR made sometime after he drafted the sonnet in late December 1879.

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The original Sharp's notation in the upper left corner. Ardour & Memory 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 ardour loves, and memory: and when flown 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 is gone; With ditties and with dirges infinite. Dante G. Rossetti Xmas 1879