A Little While Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 A Little While Dante Gabriel Rossetti Lamborn Cock & Co. Cramer, Wood & Co. London 1870 1 DGR Commentary
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A LITTLE WHILE, SONG, POETRY BY Dante Gabriel Rossetti, MUSIC BY FLORENCE A. MARSHALL. Ent. Sta. Hall. ~~*~~ Price 3s/-. London, LAMBORN COCK & Co. 62 & 63, NEW BOND STREET. AND CRAMER, WOOD & Co. Also, by the same Composer, THE WITHERED PRIMROSE ... <hi rend="ci">SONG</hi> .......... 3/- SOLITUDE .................... <hi rend="ci">SONG</hi> .......... 3/- <foreign lang="italian">IL POETA MORIENTE .............................. 3/-</foreign> <hi rend="c">A LITTLE WHILE.</hi> Words by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Music by Florence A. Marshall. A little while, a little love, The hour yet bears for thee and me, Who have not drawn the veil to see, If still our heav'n be lit above Thou only at the day's last sigh, Hast felt thy soul prolong the tone, And I have heard the night wind cry, And deem'd its speech mine own. A little while, a little love, The scatt'ring autumn hoards for us, Whose bow'r is not yet ruinous, Nor quite unleav'd our songless grove, Only across the shaken boughs, We hear the flood tides seek the sea, And deep in both our hearts they rouse, One wail for thee and me. A little while, a little love, May yet be ours who have not said, The word it makes our eyes afraid. To know that each is thinking of. Not yet the end: be our lips dumb In smiles a little season yet, I'll tell thee, when the end has come, How we may best forget. I'll tell thee, when the end has come, How we may best forget.