DGR wrote this quatrain in a notebook now housed in the Wormsley Library. It was composed at approximately the same time that he wrote
the sonnet “English May”, a copy of which is in the same notebook.
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First printed by WMR in 1911. This text does not give DGR's alternate reading for lines 1-2.
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DGR's fair notebook copy.
DGR's fair notebook copy.The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, vol. 1 (1886)Dante Gabriel RossettiWilliam Michael Rossetti18860Rossetti Album (miscellaneous collection, Getty/Wormsley Library)DGR and others1835-19330The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1911)Dante Gabriel RossettiWilliam Michael Rossetti19110