Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: Notebook Page (two loose leaves, Duke Library)
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1879-1880
Scribe: DGR
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No. I
Dante, being sick
ens and crying out
gre? in
a troublous dream of his lady's death, is
bewept by his near kinswoman; whom other
ladies lead thence, by reason of her grief, and
awaken him.
a troublous dream of his lady's death, is
bewept by his near kinswoman; whom other
ladies lead thence, by reason of her grief, and
awaken him.
No. II
Dante recounts his dream to the
ladies, who have awakened him,
whereto his grieving kinswoman also
hearkens apart.
ladies, who have awakened him,
whereto his grieving kinswoman also
hearkens apart.
- Gustave Flaubert, whose honoured rôle
- Was to be scribe to Nero's soul,
- And make French flesh to creep & crow
- O'er Carthaginian Salammbò,
- Lies here, in body, as in brain,
- Like Morgue-corpse tumid from the Seine. x
- What shall be writ above his grave?—
- Vitellius— Nero's dying stave?
- “Fui Imperator!” (shall it flow?)
- 10 Or “Qualis Artifex pereo!”
Transcribed Note (page [1]):
xFlaubert became so bloated latterly that
he could hardly move and had
to wear
a special loose costume.
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Note: For the first entry here see William Bell Scott,
William Blake: Etchings from his Works by William
Bell Scott. With Descriptive Text
1878.
Scott's Catalogue
Raisonné of Exhibition
of Exhibition
of
Burlington Fine Arts Club. 1876
Scott's Etchings from Blake's Works, with
descriptive text. 1878
Burlington Fine Arts Club. 1876
Scott's Etchings from Blake's Works, with
descriptive text. 1878
As in a tract of lifeless land, the scattered
pools of rain-water that for a moment catch
the sky as the traveller passes—so are
the lonely far-apart intervals of living labour in the
life of an idle man. After death, will all
if these brief efforts be worthy, will all be
sky-brimmed water or all a desert
of sand?
pools of rain-water that for a moment catch
the sky as the traveller passes—so are
the lonely far-apart intervals of living labour in the
life of an idle man. After death, will all
if these brief efforts be worthy, will all be
sky-brimmed water or all a desert
of sand?
- This little day—a bird that flew to me—
- Has swiftly flown out of my hand again.
- Ah! have I listened to its fugitive strain
- For what its tidings of the sky may be?
Lent Watts Gris-de-Flandres inkstand
Watts (Smith Biog. Vol. 3
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- This word had Merlin said from of old:—
- That out of the Oak Tree Shade,
- In the day of France's direst dule,
- God's hand should send a Maid.
- And where Domremy, by Burgundy,
- Sits crowned with its oakenshaw,
- Even there Joan d'Arc, the Maid of God's Ark,
- The light of the day first saw.
- Where spirits go, what man may know?
- 10 Yet this may of man be said:—
- That, when Time is o'er and all hath suffic'd,
- Shall the world's chief Christ-fire rise to Christ
- From the ashes of Joan the Maid.
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