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Document Title: Verses
Author: [Thomas James Wise]
Author: DGR
Date of Composition: 1887
Type of Manuscript: page proofs assembled into a pamphlet

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Verses.
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Verses



BY

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI.



London: Privately Printed:

1881

more about Verses
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At the Fall of the Leaf.
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At the Fall of the Leaf.
I.
  • Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf
  • How the heart feels a languid grief
  • Laid on it for covering,
  • And how sleep seems a goodly thing
  • In Autumn at the fall of the leaf?
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II.
  • And the swift beat of the brain
  • Falters because it is in vain,
  • In Autumn at the fall of the leaf,
  • Knowest thou not? and how the chief
  • 10Of joys seems not to suffer pain?
III.
  • Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf
  • How the soul feels like a dried sheaf
  • Bound up at the last for harvesting,
  • And how death seems a comely thing
  • In Autumn at the fall of the leaf?
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After the

French Liberation of Italy.
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Sonnet.

After the French Liberation of Italy.
  • As when the last of the paid joys of love
  • Has come and gone; and with a single
  • kiss
  • At length, and with one laugh of satiate
  • bliss,
  • The wearied man a minute rests above
  • The wearied woman, no more urged to move
  • In those long throes of longing, till they
  • glide,
  • Now lightlier clasped, each to the other's
  • side,
  • In joys past acting, not past dreaming of:—
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  • So Europe now beneath this paramour
  • 10Lies for a little out of use,—full oft
  • Submissive to his lust, a loveless whore,
  • He wakes, she sleeps, the breath falls slow
  • and soft
  • Wait: the bought body holds a birth within,
  • An harlot's child, to scourge her for her sin!
1859.
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London: Privately Printed: 1881.
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Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Source File: ashley1417.rad.xml
Copyright: By permission of the British Library.