<title level="doc">Michelangelo's Kiss

<title level="doc">Michelangelo's Kiss Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 © Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Sonnet XCII<lb/>Michael Angelo's Kiss DGR 1880 1 page DGR Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Tinker 1803 white 17.5 x 22 cm Commentary

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As the heading of the manuscript indicates, this text was written specifically for the 1881 version of “The House of Life” .

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Rossetti Very faint writing (perhaps a signature?) at the bottom of the page. Sonnet XCII<lb/>Michael Angelo's Kiss. -------------- Great Michael Angelo, with age grown bleak And uttermost labours, having once o'ersaid All grievous memories on his long life shed, This worst regret to one true heart could speak:— That when, with sorrowing love and reverence meek, He stooped o'er sweet Colonna's dying bed, His Muse and dominant Lady, spirit-wed,— Her hand he kissed, but not her brow or cheek. O Buonarruoti,—good at Art's fire-wheels To urge her chariot!—even thus the Soul, Touching at length some sorely-chastened goal, Earns oftenest but a little: her appeals Were deep and mute,—lowly her claim. Let be: What holds for her Death's garner? And for thee? --------------