For a Venetian Pastoral, by Giorgione (in the Louvre) (WMR corrected copy)

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Document Title: For a Venetian Pastoral, by Giorgione (in the Louvre) (WMR corrected copy)

Author: DGR

Date of Composition: 1849

Type of Manuscript: corrected fair copy

Scribe: WMR

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page: [1]

Manuscript Addition: 474

Editorial Description: In the upper right corner, the page number of WMR's projected volume.

Manuscript Addition: Rossetti

Editorial Description: WMR's pencil note in the upper left corner

For A Venetian Pastoral, by Giorgione,

in the Louvre.

Water, for anguish of the solstice,— yea nay,
Over the vessel's mouth still widening,
Added TextBut dip the vessel slowly,—nay, but lean
Listlessly dipt to let the water And hark how at its verge the wave sighs in
With slow vague gurgle. Blue & deep Reluctant. Hush! beyond all depth away,
The heat lies silent at the brink of day.
Now the hand trails upon the viol-string
That sobs; & the brown faces cease to sing,
Mournful with complete Sad with the whole of pleasure. Her eyes
whither stray
In the distance; thru her lips the pipe doth
Added TextHer eyes now, from whose mouth the slim
pipes creep,
10 And And leave s them it pouting; the green
while the shadowed grass
Is cool against her naked flesh. side? Let be.
Do not Say nothing now speak unto her, lest she weep,
Nor name this ever. Be it as it was:—
Silence of heat, & solemn poetry
Added TextLife touching lips with immortality.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

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