<title level="doc">The Sonnet (Yale proof copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 İYale University, Center for British Art <author>DGR</author> <msprod> <date compdate="1880">1880</date> <type>presentation copy</type> <assign>Proof copy on India paper for William Sharp</assign> <collation>1 page</collation> </msprod> <scribe/> <corrector/> <provenance> <location> Yale University, Center for British Art</location> <recnum/> <note>The note on the proof is in Christina Rossetti's hand</note> </provenance> <physicaldesc> <binding> <cover/> <endpapers/> </binding> <typography> <typeface> <point/> <font/> </typeface> <pagelines> <number/> <length/> </pagelines> <columns/> <margin type="top"/> <margin type="bottom"/> <margin type="right"/> <margin type="left"/> <note/> </typography> <paper>India paper</paper> <watermark/> <size>7 5/16 x 4 9/16 in.</size> <note/> </physicaldesc> </citnstruct> </sourcedesc> </filedesc> <encodingdesc/> <profiledesc> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>This interesting document is one of two known presentation proof copies. Another <xref doc="a.s258.texasproof.rap">copy</xref>, given to Constantine Ionides, is held in the Harry Ransom Research Center at Texas. This copy was used by Sharp for the first publication of the work, in facsimile, as the frontispiece in Sharp's <xref doc="a.nd497.r8s5.rad" link="dead"> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A Record and a Study</hi> .

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A Sonnet is a moment's monument,— Memorial from the soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour. Look that it be, Whether for lustral rite or dire portent, Of its own intricate fulness reverent: Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As Day or Night prevail; and let Time see It's flowering crest impearled and orient. A Sonnet is a coin: its face reveals The soul,—its converse, to what Power 'tis due:— Whether for tribute to the august appeals Of Life, or dower in Love's high retinue, It serve; or, 'mid the dark wharf's cavernous breath, In Charon's palm it pay the toll to Death. Proof on India paperfor William Sharp CR's ink notation in lower right corner.

For the right to engrave the design that forms the Frontispiece,the author is indebted to the kindness ofMrs. Gabriele Rossetti and Christina Rossetti.