Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: A Sixth English Poet (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
Author: William Sharp
Author: Fiona Macleod
Date of Composition: 1881 October 22
Type of Manuscript: holograph fair copy
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A Sixth English Poet.
(Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
being an addition to the series of five
in the Ballads and Sonnets
(Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
being an addition to the series of five
in the Ballads and Sonnets
- The hollow sound of shoreless seas is thine,
- Of vast green waves that thunder as they sweep
- Like frowns across the dark face of the deep:
- With sweet sad lovely interludes that shine
- Fair places in thy verse, 'neath skies benign
- And shadowy boughs where thro' the moontide sleep
- The thrushes whose full notes shall erewhile leap
- From song-dreams to a tide of song divine.
- Singer, whose hand hath struck the chord that make
- 10The souls of men feel less life's burdening day
- And hopeful for some calm rejoicing other,—
- Shakespeare and Dante, Milton, Shelley, take
- Thy hands in theirs, with welcoming lips that say
- “We waited long to throne thee with us, Brother”!
William Sharp
22/10/81
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Source File:
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