Rossetti Archive Manuscripts

Many of Rossetti's most important “manuscript” materials appear as marginal and interlinear material in various kinds of printed documents —most notably, in his proofs and trial books for later published books. The additions he made in these printed documents are often extensive.

These printed materials are relevant here because Rossetti typically used the prepublication printing process as a creative and compositional tool in his writing. The most famous and dramatic instance of this compositional method apppears in the prepublication documents associated with his volume of 1870 Poems: a whole series of proofs and trial books survive that demonstrate how Rossetti, something like Joyce later and Tennyson earlier, closely tracked the passage of his texts through the press to fashion and refashion what he wrote.

That he should have functioned as a poet in this way is hardly surprising, given Rossetti's commitment to the poetical ideal of a “total book.” Like Blake, whom he so much admired, Rossetti sought to make the entirety of his work poetically expressive: not merely the linguistic level of the text, but the design and bibliographical levels as well. The process of imagining and reimagining his poetical works could be properly done only if all the material features of those works were subjected to creative attention. The surviving documents show Rossetti carefully weighing questions of type fonts, page layout, general composition and organizational design of the book units, and crucial ornamental features like the cover and endpaper designs. (The single material aspect of his work to which he did not give close attention was the paper. As it turned out, this neglect proved to have decisive consequences. Because most of Rossetti's works are printed on the wretched chemicalized paper commonly used at the time by publishers, the beautiful “total book” to which he aspired always carries a secret disease. With the passage of time the disease exposes itself: the paper in his books grows ever more brittle and dark with age.)

But our interest is also drawn to Rossetti's manuscripts proper—that is to say, to the original written documents (and exclusive of the prepublication print texts, or composite print and manuscript texts). More than most poets, Rossetti was a nervous writer. He rewrote and revised and tinkered with his works continually, and the documents tell fascinating stories if one follows these processes of revision.

These surviving manuscripts tell another and equally fascinating story about Rossetti's general writing habits. Although the manuscripts are often dispersed as individual leaves or groups of leaves, acquaintance with all of the archives holding Rossetti materials shows that he typically wrote in bound notebooks with sheets of lined paper. More than this, he typically used the same kind of notebook in the 1840s as in the 1880s. The integral notebook at the Bodleian Library, which contains the unique version of The House of Life that Rossetti presented to Jane Morris, is the best surviving example of this typical notebook. Duke University Library has the remains of several notebooks of the same kind, and the paper from still other similar notebooks can be found in various archives and libraries housing Rossetti materials.

If (as seems to be the case) the manuscript of “Another Love” represents a leaf from the volume of manuscript poetry that Rossetti placed in his wife's coffin in 1862, it did not resemble his usual notebooks. The paper with that sonnet is unlined whereas Rossetti's typical notebooks were all ruled.

The surviving manuscripts show that Rossetti plundered his notebooks when he set about the business of publishing his poetry. He would tear out the pages containing individual works and use them to arrange a printer's copy. From the destruction of the notebooks during the print and publication process two bodies of material emerged: (a) new integral documents of various kinds, including printer's copy documents (some of which survive intact or partially intact); (b) a scattering of loose manuscripts.

From a strictly bibliographical point of view, Rossetti's notebooks supply crucial information for dating the composition and revision of various works. Furthermore, in reconstructing the original notebooks from the surviving manuscripts (now scatttered in various places), one can expose relationships between works that might not otherwise be apparent.

Another set of surviving manuscripts should be mentioned: the four small notebooks housed in the Ashley Collection. These all date from 1870-1881. They are notebooks carrying a heteroglot body of materials: memoranda, diary-type notes, shopping lists, draft versions of poems, and so forth. Rossetti seems to have used these notebooks while he was painting or at other odd times. He chose them for their size, because they would fit easily into the pocket of either his painting smock or into the pocket of a waistcoat. Rossetti's brother culled from all of his various notebooks the “Scraps” of DGR's work that he printed in the later series of his posthumous editions (see especially the most complete selection in WMR's 1911 edition of Rossetti's works). A complete edition of these notebooks has never been presented, but T. A. J. Burnett has announced his intention to prepare such an edition in the near future.

One final matter about the manuscripts (narrowly conceived) should be mentioned. As in the case of his pictorial work, Rossetti often made multiple copies of his poems. These would not be copies that were part of a process of composition/revision and/or publication. They are copies with an integral and independent existence of their own. The Bodleian text of The House of Life, a gift to Jane Morris, exemplifies this kind of document, but a great many examples could be given, including the celebrated copy given to the Brownings of The Blessed Damozel held in the Morgan Library.

Rossetti's manuscripts are scattered in many libraries and other archives. There are, however, a handful of principal collections which include the Bodleian Library; the Delaware Art Museum (Bancroft Collection); the British Library (and especially the Ashley collection); the Duke University Library; the Fitzwilliam Museum; the Library of Congress, and Princeton University Library (especially the Troxell collection). Important smaller collections are housed in the Huntington Library, the Beinecke Library (Yale University), the Houghton Library (Harvard University), the Rosenbach Library, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (U. of Texas), and Union College Library.

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Adieu

1850?

Let time & chance combine, combine,
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After the French Liberation of Italy

1859?

As When the last of the long warm joys of love
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After the French Liberation of Italy (Arendts Collection corrected proof)

1869

As when the last of the paid joys of love
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After the French Liberation of Italy (Princeton Library proof copy)

1869

As when the last of the paid joys of love
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After the French Liberation of Italy (William Sharp fair copy)

1881 (circa)

As When the last of the paid joys of love
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After the German Subjugation of France (British Library fair copy)

1871

Lo! the twelfth year,—the wedding-feast come round
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After the German Subjugation of France (Duke University corrected fair copy)

1871

Lo, the twelfth year;—the wedding-feast come round
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Afterwards

aka Unburied Death

1848

She opened her moist crimson lips to sing;
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Another Love (holograph fair copy, British Library)

1848

Of her I thou[ght w]ho now is g[one s]o far:
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Ardour and Memory (holograph fair copy, Brotherton Collection, Leeds University)

1873

The cuckoo-throb, the heartbeat of the Spring;
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Ashley 3847 (with a copy of “At Last” and fragments of “The White Ship”)

1869? 1871? 1880-1881?

Fate claimed hard toll from Love, and did not spare:
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Astarte Syriaca

1877

Mystery: lo! betwixt the sun and moon
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Astarte Syriaca (Texas MS)

1877?

Mystery: lo! betwixt the sun and moon
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Autumn Song (Ashley Library fair copy, three stanza version)

1848

Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf
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Autumn Song (WMR's fair copy, five stanza version)

1848

Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf
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                    Ardour and Memory



Ardour and Memory

1879

The cuckoo-throb, the heartbeat of the Spring;
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                    Astarte Syriaca



Astarte Syriaca

1877

Mystery: lo! betwixt the sun and moon
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                    La Bella Mano (For a Picture)



La Bella Mano (For a Picture)

1875

O B bella mano, che ti lavi e piaci
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La Bella Mano (For a Picture)

1875

O lovely hand, that thy sweet self dost lave
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                    Michelangelo's Kiss



Michelangelo's Kiss

1880

Great Michael Angelo, with age grown bleak
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                    The Cloud Confines



The Cloud Confines

1880

The day is dark and the night
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                    The White Ship



The White Ship

1880

By none but me can the tale be told,
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Ballads and Sonnets (1881), Public Advertisement for the volume (British Library manuscript)

1881
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Barcarola (fair copy, Boston Public Library Manuscript)

1874

Per carità,
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Beauty and the Bird (fair copy, Huntington Library)

1858

[Sh]e fluted with her mouth as when one sips,
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The Blessed Damozel (1872 autograph MS fragment)

1872 (circa)

Around her, lovers, newly met
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The Blessed Damozel (fair copy manuscript)

1855 September

The blessed damsel leaned against
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The Blood's Winter

1848

I shall not conquer, much as I may strive, The end is come. However much I strive
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A Bloom in Hope's Garden

1848

I came upon her looking in the glass
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The Bodleian Notebook (“Kelmscott Love Sonnets”)

1874

By what word's power, the key of paths untrod,
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Bodleian Notebook II

1870-1880 ?

A Sonnet is a moment's monument,—
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The Bride's Prelude

1870, 1880

“Sister,” said busy Amelotte
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The Bride's Prelude (1881 slip proofs, British Library copy)

1881

‘Sister,’ said busy Amelotte
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The Bride's Prelude (1881 slip proofs, Delaware Museum library)

1881

‘Sister,’ said busy Amelotte
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The Bride's Prelude (1881 slip proofs, Princeton-Taylor collection)

1881

‘Sister,’ said busy Amelotte
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The Bride's Prelude (and other Manuscripts)

1869?, 1871?, 1878
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The Burden of Nineveh (fair copy fragment)

1869

I have no taste for polyglot:
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The Burden of Nineveh (revised manuscript fragment, facsimile)

1850

The The sun waxed fully present. Blue
C
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Cecco d'Angiolieri, da Siena. “Prolonged Sonnet. When his Clothes were gone.”

1870 February 20

Never so bare and naked was church-stone
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A Change

aka The World's Doing

1848

I One would scarcely think that we can be the same
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Chi non sente d'amor o tanto o quanto

1295?

Chi non sente d' Amor o tanto , o quanto
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The Church Porches. II. (To C. G. R.)

1869

Sister, arise: we have no more to sing
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The Cloud before the Storm

1848

But before going out, she took her stand
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The Cloud Confines, Unburdened (Princeton manuscript letter)

1876 September 1

“Still we say as we go—
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Commonplace Book of Alice Hawkins Ramsden

1881-1928

There are certain 2 brothers called Agnew,
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Compenso

1869

O bocca che nell' ora del compenso
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Concentred Companionship

1848

Look at me: do not turn away thy face
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Czar Alexander the Second. (13th March, 1881.) (Corrected copy, Houghton Library)

1881 March 13

From him did forty thousand Serfs, endow'd
D
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D. G. R.

1882

Sunshine of day, & clear starlight of night!
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Dante's Dream on the Day of the Death of Beatrice: 9th of June, 1290 (fair copy, State Historical Society of Iowa)

1873?

Then Love said, “Now shall all things be made clear:
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Dante at Verona (corrected holograph manuscript, Delaware Art Museum)

1880 (circa)

Also a tale is told, how once,
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Dante at Verona (fair copy manuscript with corrections, Fitzwilliam Museum)

1848, 1869

“Yea, thou shalt learn how salt his food who fares
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1880 May 12

As when the red ripe harvest, newly mown,
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Death-in-Love (holograph fair copy, U. of British Columbia Library)

1869

There came an Image in Life's retinue
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The Death of Topsy (draft manuscript)

1878

Hi diddle diddle
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The Death of Topsy (fair copy manuscript)

1878
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Dennis Shand (fair copy, corrected: Humanities Research Center, U. of Texas)

1850

The [?]tles shadows fall along the wall,
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The devil has gone right (draft manuscript)

1848?

The devil has gone
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Disio

1868

O bocca che nell' ora del disìo
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Dis Manibus

1874

Upon the landscape of his coming life
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A Doctor's Advice

1866

My doctor's issued his decree
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Dominus Fredericus (Rich Peace)

1849?

Sweet name, & strangest friend I ever knew,
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The Doom of the Sirens

1869

“Digitum tuum, Thoma,
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 Suggested by his Picture “The 
Girlhood of Mary Virgin”



Double Sonnet to the Painter D. G. Rossetti, Suggested by his Picture “The Girlhood of Mary Virgin”

1849 August

Musing, not seldom to my eye of mind
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Down Stream

1871

Between Holmscote and Hurstcote
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Down Stream

1871

Between Holmscote and Hurstcote
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Down Stream

1871

Between Holmscote and Hurstcote
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Do you know the Dreadful Nightman

1881 May

Do you know the Dreadful Nightman
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The Dream of Dante. A Picture by D. G. Rossetti

1874 November 11

Over the dreamful poppies onward move,
E
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Early Christmas Carols (fair copy, Fitzwilliam Museum)

1850?

When Christ was born of Mary free,
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The Early Italian Poets, Working Papers

1849?

Tender as dew her cheek's warm life,
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Eden Bower (composite draft and corrected copy manuscript, British Library)

1869 September

It was Lilith the wife of Adam:
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Eden Bower (printer's copy manuscript, Princeton/Troxell collection)

1869 September

It was Lilith the wife of Adam:
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The End of It (18th June 1815) (holograph fair copy, British Library)

1845

His brows met, and his teeth were set,
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The English Revolution of 1848

1848

Ho ye that nothing have to lose! ho rouse ye, one & all!
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[Epigram on E. S. Dallas] (British Library fair copy manuscript)

1871 April 28

There is a poor devil named Dallas,
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Equal Troth

1871

Not by one measure mayst thou mete our love;
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An Excellent Ballad of Charity

1880 May

In Virginè the sultry sun 'gan
F
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Fiammetta (For a Picture) (Delaware fair copy)

1879

Behold Fiammetta, shown in Vision here.
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                    (posthumous manuscript collection, Huntington Library)



Fifteen Original Autograph Manuscript Poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (posthumous manuscript collection, Huntington Library)

1849-1865 ?

The mother will not turn, who thinks she hears
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Filii Filia (fair copy manuscript, Delware Art Museum library)

1869

The lilies stand before her like a screen
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First Fire (fair copy, British Library)

1871

This hour be her sweet body all my song.
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                    (Hans Memmeling) (WMR corrected copy)



For a Marriage of St. Katharine, by the same (Hans Memmeling) (WMR corrected copy)

1849

A remote sky, prolonged to the sea's brim.
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                    (Hans Memmeling) (WMR corrected copy)



For a Marriage of St. Katharine, by the same (Hans Memmeling) (WMR corrected copy)

1849

Mystery: Katherine, the bride of Christ.
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                    by Andrea Mantegna (In the Louvre) (WMR corrected copy)



For an Allegorical Dance of Women by Andrea Mantegna (In the Louvre) (WMR corrected copy)

1849

Scarcely, I think; yet it indeed may be
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                    Louvre) (WMR corrected copy)



For a Venetian Pastoral, by Giorgione (in the Louvre) (WMR corrected copy)

1849

Water, for anguish of the solstice,—yea nay,
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For the Holy Family by Michelangelo (in the National Gallery) (Rosenbach Library copy)

1880

Turn not the prophet's page, O Son! He knew
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Fragment (from “On Mary's Portrait Which I Painted Six Years Ago”)

1847

Mid these,
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Francesca Da Rimini: Dante (fair copy manuscript)

1862 September

“ When I made answer, I began: “Alas!
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Francesca da Rimini (late fair copy manuscript)

1879

When I made answer, I began: “Alas!
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From Dawn to Noon (Delaware corrected copy)

1873

As the child knows not if his mother's face
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Fruit from Hope's Garden

1848

I still stood pausing:—with a smile she rose
G
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Genuine Extract from the Diary & Letters of a Maniac

1849 June 30

He says that I am wroth with him.
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Gioventù e Signorìa.

1879-1880

È giovine il signore,
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Gioventù e Signorìa.

1879-1880

È giovine il signore,
H
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Happy and Thankful

1848

There is a new glory on all the land;
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Heart's Compass

aka Love's Compass

1871

Sometimes you thou seems't not as yourself thyself alone,
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Heart's Haven (corrected holograph copy, Bancroft Collection)

1871

Sometimes she is a child within mine arms,
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Heart's Hope (corrected holograph copy, Bancroft Collection)

1871

By what word's power, the key to paths untrod,
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Height in Depth

aka Heighth in Depth

1848

He turned his face about, and gave a sigh
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Henry the Leper (fair copy, Huntington Library)

1846

Hartmann von Auë, the fame went,
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Her Gifts (corrected holograph copy, Bancroft Collection)

1871

High grace, the dower of queens; and therewithal
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Hero's Lamp (Delaware fair copy Manuscript)

1875

That lamp there fill'st in Eros' name to-night,
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Hero's Lamp (Rosenbach Library fair copy)

1875

That lamp there fill'st in Eros' name to-night,
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Hero's Lamp (Texas corrected fair copy manuscript)

1875?

That lamp there fill'st in Eros' name to-night,
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The House of Life, A Sonnet Sequence (composite manuscript posthumously arranged, Princeton/Troxell collection)

1869-1881

A Sonnet is a moment's monument,—
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The House of Life (composite manuscript posthumously arranged, Fitzwilliam Museum)

1845 - 1881

A Sonnet is a moment's monument,—
I
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Inclusiveness (corrected holograph copy, Bancroft Collection)

1869

The changing guests, each in a different mood,
J
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Jan Van Hunks (British Library, Ashley 3868)

1882

Full of smoke was the quaint old room
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Jan Van Hunks (Duke University Library)

1846; 1881-2

Full of smoke was the queer old room
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Jan Van Hunks (New York Public Library)

1881-1882

The chamber Chamber window stood to the street,
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Jenny (early fair copy, Delaware Art Museum)

1864? (early to mid-1860)

An harlot is accounted as spittle.
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Jenny (fair copy, non-holograph, Fitzwilliam Museum)

1869 (probably sometime after 1869, perhaps many years later)

An harlot is accounted as spittle.
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Jenny (late copy with heavy revisions, Fitzwilliam Museum)

1869 October-November; 1870 January-February

Lazy laughing languid Jenny,
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Johannes Ronge

1847?

Silesian shepherd, blesed be
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John Keats (British Library fair copy)

1880

The weltering London ways where children weep
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John Keats (Delaware corrected copy)

1880

The weltering London ways where children weep,—
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John Keats (Delaware first draft)

1880

The weltering City London ways where children weep
K
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The King's Tragedy (Fitzwilliam Draft Manuscript)

1859 (circa)

But the bird may fall from the bough of youth
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The King's Tragedy (Huntington Library Manuscript)

1881

I Catherine was am a Douglas born,
L
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La Bella Mano (For a Picture) (Delaware fair copy)

1875

O bella Mano, che ti lavi e piaci
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La Bella Mano (Princeton fair copies)

1875

O Bella Mano, che ti lavi e piaci
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The Lady's Lament (draft manuscript)

1848

Never happy any more!
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Lady mine, the hour is here (draft manuscript)

1848?

Lady mine, the hour is here;
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The Laird of Waristoun (corrected draft manuscript)

1861

Down by yon garden green
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The Lamp's Shrine (Delaware fair copy)

1871

Sometimes I fain would find in thee some fault,
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La Pia

1880

“Ah! when on earth thy voice again is heard
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A Last Confession (draft fragment)

1869 October

Father, the day I speak of was the first
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A Last Confession (fair copy manuscript with corrections, Fitzwilliam Museum)

1869 (Manuscript copied in October 1869 from an earlier copy made before 1862)

Our Lombard country-girls along the coast
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Lenore. by G. A. Burger

1844

Up rose Lenore as the red morn wore
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Letter from William Bell Scott to unknown correspondent, August 1869

1869 August

Sister, first shake we off the dust we have
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Letter to Barbara Bodichon, 15 March 1870

1870 March 15

Why sink those black drops in that golden wine,
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Letter to Christina Rossetti, 8 November 1853

1853 November 8

Getting his pictures, like his supper, cheap,
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Letter to Edward Burne-Jones, 13 March 1870

1870 March 13

Why sink those black drops in that golden wine
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Letter to F. S.

1848 December 20

This morning—(No; for 'tis now past twelve,
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Letter to Ford Madox Brown, 12 October 1868

1868 October 12
Page Images Available for Letter to Frances M. L. Rossetti, 20 July 1867



Letter to Frances M. L. Rossetti, 20 July 1867

1867 July 20

Andromeda, by Perseus saved and wed,
Page Images Available for Letter to Frances M. L. Rossetti, 5 Sptember 1848



Letter to Frances M. L. Rossetti, 5 Sptember 1848

1848 September 5

Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf
Page Images Available for Letter to Frederick Shields, 21 May 1880



Letter to Frederick Shields, 21 May 1880

1880 May 21

This is the place. Even here the dauntless soul,
Page Images Available for Letter to Frederick Stephens, 2 February 1881



Letter to Frederick Stephens, 2 February 1881

1881 February 2

Deh quando tu sarai tornato al mondo
Page Images Available for Letter to Frederick Stephens, ca. 10 August 1875



Letter to Frederick Stephens, ca. 10 August 1875

1875 August 10

Afar away the light that brings cold cheer
Page Images Available for Letter to Hall Caine, 27 July 1880



Letter to Hall Caine, 27 July 1880

1880 July 27

His Soul fared forth (as from the deep home-grove
Page Images Available for Letter to James Collinson, 25 October 1849



Letter to James Collinson, 25 October 1849

1849 October 25

Ah yes, exactly so: but when a man
Page Images Available for Letter to James Smetham, August 10, 1868



Letter to James Smetham, August 10, 1868

1868 August 10

Today Death seems to me an infant child
Page Images Available for Letter to Jane Morris, 11 September 1869



Letter to Jane Morris, 11 September 1869

1869 September 11

Oh! how the family affections combat
Page Images Available for Letter to Jane Morris, 3 September 1880



Letter to Jane Morris, 3 September 1880

1880 September 3

The thronged boughs of the shadowy sycamore
Page Images Available for Letter to Leigh Hunt, 1847



Letter to Leigh Hunt, 1847

1847 December?
Page Images Available for Letter to Mrs. Gabriele Rossetti, 18 August 1871



Letter to Mrs. Gabriele Rossetti, 18 August 1871

1871 August 18

Tonight this sunset spreads two golden wings
Page Images Available for Letter to Mrs. Gabriele Rossetti, 23 December 1880



Letter to Mrs. Gabriele Rossetti, 23 December 1880

1880 December 23

Turn not the prophet's page, O Son! He knew
Page Images Available for Letter to S. W.



Letter to S. W.

1848 August

Dear Williams, let loud greeting cheer thee
Page Images Available for Letter to Thomas Gordon Hake, 2 September 1871



Letter to Thomas Gordon Hake, 2 September 1871

1871 September 2

And what can our birthright be?
Page Images Available for Letter to Thomas Gordon Hake, September 11, 1871



Letter to Thomas Gordon Hake, September 11, 1871

1871 September 11

Water-willow and wellaway,
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Letter to Thomas Hake 22 Sept 1871

1871 September 22

A swoon that breaks is the whelming wave
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Letter to William Allingham, 23 January 1855, manuscript

1855 January 23

The gloom which breathes upon me with these airs
Page Images Available for Letter to William Allingham, 23 July 1854, manuscript



Letter to William Allingham, 23 July 1854, manuscript

1854 July 21

Getting his pictures, like his supper, cheap
Page Images Available for Letter to William Allingham, August 1854, manuscript



Letter to William Allingham, August 1854, manuscript

1854 August 1?

“So in that soul—a mindful brotherhood,—
Page Images Available for Letter to William Bell Scott, 13 July 1853



Letter to William Bell Scott, 13 July 1853

1853 July 13

I plucked a honeysuckle, where
Page Images Available for Letter to William Bell Scott, 22 May 1873



Letter to William Bell Scott, 22 May 1873

1873 May 22

Soft-littered is the new-year's lambing-fold:
Page Images Available for Letter to William Bell Scott, February 13, 1855



Letter to William Bell Scott, February 13, 1855

1855 February 13

With fraud the church, the law, the camp, are rife:
Page Images Available for Letter to William Bell Scott, February 1857, manuscript



Letter to William Bell Scott, February 1857, manuscript

1857 February

O woodman, spare that block,
Page Images Available for Letter to William Bell Scott, July 1853, manuscript



Letter to William Bell Scott, July 1853, manuscript

1853 July

This tree here fall'n, no common birth or death
Page Images Available for Letter to William Bell Scott, July 1869, manuscript



Letter to William Bell Scott, July 1869, manuscript

1869 (circa July)

Some ladies love the jewels in Love's zone,
Page Images Available for Letter to William Bell Scott, September 15, 1871



Letter to William Bell Scott, September 15, 1871

1871 September 15

Enter Poet, moored in a punt,
Page Images Available for Letter to William Holman Hunt, January 30, 1855



Letter to William Holman Hunt, January 30, 1855

1855 January 23

The gloom which breathes upon me with these airs
Page Images Available for Letter to William Michael Rossetti, 10 September 1871



Letter to William Michael Rossetti, 10 September 1871

1871 September 10

“And what must our birthright be?
Page Images Available for Letter to William Michael Rossetti, 18 October 1849



Letter to William Michael Rossetti, 18 October 1849

1849 October 18

Non noi pittori! God of Nature's truth,
Page Images Available for Letter to William Michael Rossetti, 27-29 September 1849



Letter to William Michael Rossetti, 27-29 September 1849

1849 September 27-29

A constant keeping past of shaken trees,
Page Images Available for Letter to William Michael Rossetti, 8 October 1849



Letter to William Michael Rossetti, 8 October 1849

1849 October 8

“And prayed of Christ (he knowing how it was) That, if this thing were sinful unto death, He would himself be first to throw the stone. So then I entered, &c.”
Page Images Available for Library of D. G. Rossetti



Library of D. G. Rossetti

aka Books belonging to Dante G. Rossetti.

1866
Page Images Available for Life and Works of William Blake (MS fragment)



Life and Works of William Blake (MS fragment)

1880

Like to dung upon the ground
Page Images Available for Life and Works of William Blake (MS fragment)



Life and Works of William Blake (MS fragment)

1880

O lapwing thou fliest around the heath
Page Images Available for Life and Works of William Blake (MS fragment)



Life and Works of William Blake (MS fragment)

1880

Love to faults is always blind,
Page Images Available for Life the Beloved (Delaware fair copy Manuscript)



Life the Beloved (Delaware fair copy Manuscript)

1873

As thy friend's face, in shadow of pain or dread,
Page Images Available for Limerick: Nine Tailors



Limerick: Nine Tailors

1869?

Ritòl deròl derà
Page Images Available for Lines from the Roman de la Rose



Lines from the Roman de la Rose

1850

Tendre eut la chair comme rousée,
Page Images Available for A Little While



A Little While

1859

A little while a little love
Page Images Available for A Long Road, but with an End



A Long Road, but with an End

1848

He told me that/all that his love had never won
Page Images Available for Love's Fatality (Delaware fair copy)



Love's Fatality (Delaware fair copy)

1871

Sweet Love,—but oh! most dread Desire of Love
Page Images Available for Love's Last Gift (Delaware early fair copy)



Love's Last Gift (Delaware early fair copy)

1871

Love held to me a glistening laurel-leaf,
Page Images Available for Love's Pageant and The Cloud Confines (Beinecke Library fair copy)



Love's Pageant and The Cloud Confines (Beinecke Library fair copy)

1871

What dawn-pulse at the heart of heaven, or last
Page Images Available for Love and Hope (Delaware early draft manuscript)



Love and Hope (Delaware early draft manuscript)

1871

Kiss once again. Full many Even new the Full many a withered year
Page Images Available for Love and Loss. (Three Sonnets.) (fair copy, British Library)



Love and Loss. (Three Sonnets.) (fair copy, British Library)

1871?

Sweet twining hedgeflowers wind-stirred in no wise
Page Images Available for Love-Lily (fair copy, Princeton/Troxell collection)



Love-Lily (fair copy, Princeton/Troxell collection)

1869

Between the brows, between the lips,
Page Images Available for Lyrics, &c. (Princeton/Troxell bound manuscript volume)



Lyrics, &c. (Princeton/Troxell bound manuscript volume)

1880-1881

Let no man ask thee of anything
M
Page Images Available for M.S. Poetry 1869.70.71 (composite manuscript collection, Princeton/Taylor
                    collection)



M.S. Poetry 1869.70.71 (composite manuscript collection, Princeton/Taylor collection)

1869-1871

The sea is in its listless chime:
Page Images Available for MacCracken (Parody on Tennyson's 'Kraken')



MacCracken (Parody on Tennyson's 'Kraken')

1853

Getting his pictures, like his supper, cheap,
Page Images Available for Manuscript Pieces: Ashley A3862



Manuscript Pieces: Ashley A3862

1873, 1881

The Present is but one coil
Page Images Available for Mary's Girlhood (For a Picture)



Mary's Girlhood (For a Picture)

1848 November 21

This is that blessed Mary, pre-elect
Page Images Available for Mater Pulchrae Delectionis (fair copy fragment, Duke U. Library)



Mater Pulchrae Delectionis (fair copy fragment, Duke U. Library)

1847

Mother of the fair Delight,
Page Images Available for Meglio so cavezzar in su d 'un letto



Meglio so cavezzar in su d 'un letto

1849

Meglio so cavezzar in su d 'un letto
Page Images Available for Memorial Thresholds (Delaware draft manuscript)



Memorial Thresholds (Delaware draft manuscript)

1873

What place so strange,—though unimagined unconjectured snow
Page Images Available for Messer Dante a Messer Bruno



Messer Dante a Messer Bruno

1867

Essendo pazzo, il bue al guado intoppa,
Page Images Available for Messer Dante a Messer Bruno



Messer Dante a Messer Bruno

1867

Essendo pazzo, il bue al guado intoppa,
Page Images Available for Michael Scott's Wooing (For a Picture)



Michael Scott's Wooing (For a Picture)

1876 January 4

And as each gulf-scooped wave rang home
Page Images Available for Mid-Rapture (fair copy, Boston Public Library Manuscript)



Mid-Rapture (fair copy, Boston Public Library Manuscript)

1871

O lovely, loving, & beloved love;
Page Images Available for Minstrels' Marriage Song



Minstrels' Marriage Song

1880 May

The budding floweret blushes at the
Page Images Available for The Mirror



The Mirror

aka A Symbol

1850 September

She knew it not,—most perfect pain
Page Images Available for The Moonstar (corrected holograph copy, Bancroft Collection)



The Moonstar (corrected holograph copy, Bancroft Collection)

1871

Lady, I thank thee for thy loveliness,
Page Images Available for My Lady



My Lady

1866?

My lady, as God made thee you, may God guard thee you:
N
Page Images Available for The Next New Hamlet's Soliloquy (corrected manuscript



The Next New Hamlet's Soliloquy (corrected manuscript

1874

To be or not to be (that is the question!)
Page Images Available for The Next New Hamlet's Soliloquy (final fair copy manuscript)



The Next New Hamlet's Soliloquy (final fair copy manuscript)

1874

To be or not to be (that is the question!)
Page Images Available for Nocturne



Nocturne

1884 July

My Dante lies at Birchington,
Page Images Available for Notebook Page: Ashley 3852



Notebook Page: Ashley 3852

1880?

Not by one measure mayst thou meet mete our love;
Page Images Available for Notebook Page: Ashley A3840



Notebook Page: Ashley A3840

1871

Even as a child, of sorrow that we give
Page Images Available for Notebook Page (Rosenbach Library)



Notebook Page (Rosenbach Library)

1880

Who shall say what is said in him
Page Images Available for Notebook Page (two loose leaves, Duke Library)



Notebook Page (two loose leaves, Duke Library)

1879-1880

Gustave Flaubert, whose honoured rôle
Page Images Available for Notebook Pages (Duke Library Note Book II)



Notebook Pages (Duke Library Note Book II)

1847-1848, 1878-1880

Why yes: she looks as then she look'd;
Page Images Available for Notebook Pages (Notebook I, Duke Library)



Notebook Pages (Notebook I, Duke Library)

1863-1869

Page Images Available for Notebook Pages (Note Book III, Duke Library)



Notebook Pages (Note Book III, Duke Library)

1881

though all the rest go by,
Page Images Available for Notebook Pages (Note Book IV, Duke Library)



Notebook Pages (Note Book IV, Duke Library)

1871, 1880

The ark of the Lord of Hosts
Page Images Available for [Notes for The Early Italian Poets]



[Notes for The Early Italian Poets]

1860?

Blessed the soul which when while
Page Images Available for Nuptial Sleep (corrected fair copy, British Library)



Nuptial Sleep (corrected fair copy, British Library)

1869 (possibly summer)

So their mouths came asunder lips clove & sundered drew asunder with fierce smart—
O
Page Images Available for On a Handful of French Money



On a Handful of French Money

1879-1880

These coins that jostle on my hand do own
Page Images Available for On Certain Elizabethan Revivals (Folger Library Manuscript)



On Certain Elizabethan Revivals (Folger Library Manuscript)

1870

O ruff-embastioned vast Elizabeth,
Page Images Available for The One Dark Shade



The One Dark Shade

1848

The grass she sat amidst was very green
Page Images Available for The One Hope (fair copy holograph, Library of Congress)



The One Hope (fair copy holograph, Library of Congress)

1870 March

When vain desire at last and vain regret
Page Images Available for One of Time's Riddles



One of Time's Riddles

1848

In her deep bosom the pride settled down—
Page Images Available for One with Two Shadows



One with Two Shadows

aka Another Love

1848

I thought of her face who is very gone so far:
Page Images Available for On One Condition



On One Condition

1848

I think I should not think upon her now:
Page Images Available for On Refusal of Aid Between Nations (fair copy, State Historical Society of
                    Iowa)



On Refusal of Aid Between Nations (fair copy, State Historical Society of Iowa)

1849

Not that the earth is changing, O my God!
Page Images Available for On the Site of a Mulberry-Tree, planted by William Shakespeare, felled by
                    Rev. F. Gastrell (Delaware fair copy)



On the Site of a Mulberry-Tree, planted by William Shakespeare, felled by Rev. F. Gastrell (Delaware fair copy)

1853

This tree, here fall'n, no common birth or death
P
Page Images Available for Paint Mixing Instructions(1) (Texas MS)



Paint Mixing Instructions(1) (Texas MS)

1867? 1862?
Page Images Available for Paint Mixing Instructions(2) (Texas MS)



Paint Mixing Instructions(2) (Texas MS)

1867? 1862?
Page Images Available for Pandora. A Picture. In mem. 11th Jan 1870



Pandora. A Picture. In mem. 11th Jan 1870

1870 January 23

From the great city's ever-surging sea
Page Images Available for Parted Love! (untitled fair copy)



Parted Love! (untitled fair copy)

1869 September 10

Oh! how the family affections combat
Page Images Available for Percy Bysshe Shelley



Percy Bysshe Shelley

1881

'Twixt those twin worlds,—the world of Sleep,
Page Images Available for Percy Bysshe Shelley (Inscription for the couch, still preserved, on which he
                    passed the last night of his life) (Delaware fair copy manuscript)



Percy Bysshe Shelley (Inscription for the couch, still preserved, on which he passed the last night of his life) (Delaware fair copy manuscript)

1881

'Twixt those twin worlds,—the world of Sleep, which gave
Page Images Available for Percy Bysshe Shelley (Inscription for the couch, still preserved, on which he
                    passed the last night of his life) (Delware corrected copy)



Percy Bysshe Shelley (Inscription for the couch, still preserved, on which he passed the last night of his life) (Delware corrected copy)

1881

'Twixt those twin worlds,—the world of Sleep, which gave
Page Images Available for Place de la Bastille, Paris



Place de la Bastille, Paris

1849

How dear the sky has been above this place!
Page Images Available for Plighted Promise



Plighted Promise

1865

In a soft-complexioned sky,
Page Images Available for Poems (1870): Printer's copy MS for first edition proofs front matter



Poems (1870): Printer's copy MS for first edition proofs front matter

1870 February

Poems
Page Images Available for Poems and Sonnets. MSS. D. G. Rossetti (Texas miscellaneous
					collection)



Poems and Sonnets. MSS. D. G. Rossetti (Texas miscellaneous collection)

1848-1910

The city's steeple-towers remove away
Page Images Available for Poems and Sonnets (Fitzwilliam Museum bound volume of miscellaneous poems)



Poems and Sonnets (Fitzwilliam Museum bound volume of miscellaneous poems)

1848-1881

Her portrait looks [?] unnatural /seems a miracle This is her portrait as she was:
Page Images Available for The Portrait (fair copy manuscript, Ashmolean Museum): a Rossetti Archive Document



The Portrait (fair copy manuscript, Ashmolean Museum): a Rossetti Archive Document

1869

And But when that hour my soul won strength
Page Images Available for The Portrait (fair copy manuscript)



The Portrait (fair copy manuscript)

1869 July or 1869 August (early)

O Lord of all compassionate control,
Page Images Available for Praise and Prayer (cancelled fair copy, Houghton Library, Harvard U.)



Praise and Prayer (cancelled fair copy, Houghton Library, Harvard U.)

1848

Doubt spoke [no wo]rds in me as [there] I kneeled.
Page Images Available for A Prayer (corrected fair copy, partial manuscript)



A Prayer (corrected fair copy, partial manuscript)

1846

Lady, in thy proud eyes
Page Images Available for A Prayer (corrected fair copy)



A Prayer (corrected fair copy)

1869

Lady, in thy proud eyes
Page Images Available for A Prayer (fair copy, earliest manuscript)



A Prayer (fair copy, earliest manuscript)

1846

Lady, in thy proud eyes
Page Images Available for Pride of Youth (British Library fair copy)



Pride of Youth (British Library fair copy)

1880

Even as a child, of sorrow that we give
Page Images Available for Proserpina. For a Picture (prose ekphrasis, Duke Manuscript)



Proserpina. For a Picture (prose ekphrasis, Duke Manuscript)

1874
Page Images Available for Proserpina (British Library fair copy)



Proserpina (British Library fair copy)

1872

Lungi la luce che in sù questo muro
Page Images Available for Proserpina (For a Picture) (Texas MS, Italian version)



Proserpina (For a Picture) (Texas MS, Italian version)

1877

Lungi è la luce che in sù questo muro
Page Images Available for Proserpina (Per un Quadro) (fair copy, Boston Public Library Manuscript)



Proserpina (Per un Quadro) (fair copy, Boston Public Library Manuscript)

1872

Lungiè la luce che in sù questo muro
Page Images Available for Proserpine (For a Picture) (Texas MS, English version)



Proserpine (For a Picture) (Texas MS, English version)

1877

Afar away the light that brings cold cheer
Q
Page Images Available for The Question (for a Design) (corrected  copy)



The Question (for a Design) (corrected copy)

1882 April

This sea, deep furrowed as the face of Time,
R
Page Images Available for Raleigh's Cell in the Tower



Raleigh's Cell in the Tower

1881

Writ here was the World's h History by his hand
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Raleigh's Cell in the Tower (Delaware corrected copy

1881

Here writ was the World's History by his hand
Page Images Available for Raleigh's Cell in the Tower (Schott fair copy)



Raleigh's Cell in the Tower (Schott fair copy)

1881

Here writ was the world's history by his hand
Page Images Available for Review of John Payne's Lautrec (Princeton draft manuscript)



Review of John Payne's Lautrec (Princeton draft manuscript)

1878
Page Images Available for Roderick and Rosalba



Roderick and Rosalba

aka The Free Companions. A Tale of the Days of King Stephen

1840
Page Images Available for Rose Mary (corrected holograph fragment, Bancroft Collection)



Rose Mary (corrected holograph fragment, Bancroft Collection)

1871; 1879

Tall Rose Mary was little May—
Page Images Available for Rose Mary (the Beryl Songs)



Rose Mary (the Beryl Songs)

1880 January

We whose home is the Beryl,
Page Images Available for Rossetti Album (miscellaneous collection, Getty/Wormsley Library)



Rossetti Album (miscellaneous collection, Getty/Wormsley Library)

1835-1933
S
Page Images Available for Sacrament Hymn



Sacrament Hymn

1850

On a fair Sabbath day, when his banquet is spread,
Page Images Available for The Salutation of Beatrice (prose description)



The Salutation of Beatrice (prose description)

1880

“Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare
Page Images Available for Samuel Taylor Coleridge



Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1880

His Soul fared forth (as from the deep home-grove
Page Images Available for A Sea-Spell



A Sea-Spell

1870 April

Her lute hangs shadowed in the apple-tree,
Page Images Available for Silence. For a Design



Silence. For a Design

1877
Page Images Available for Silent Noon (corrected draft, Rosenbach Library)



Silent Noon (corrected draft, Rosenbach Library)

1871

Your hands lie open in the long deep low grass
Page Images Available for Silent Noon (draft, Rosenbach Library)



Silent Noon (draft, Rosenbach Library)

1871

Your hands lie open in the long deep grass
Page Images Available for The Sin of Detection



The Sin of Detection

1848

She bowed her face among them all, as one
Page Images Available for Sister Helen, lines 239-245, 267-273 (draft copy, Princeton Library)



Sister Helen, lines 239-245, 267-273 (draft copy, Princeton Library)

1879

She is raised They've caught her to Westholm's
Page Images Available for Sister Helen (corrected copy of lines 204-231, Princeton/Troxell collection):
                    Rossetti Archive Document



Sister Helen (corrected copy of lines 204-231, Princeton/Troxell collection): Rossetti Archive Document

1879 (circa)

‘A lady's here, by a dark steed brought,
Page Images Available for Sister Helen (fair copy, lines 93-98, 205-273, British Library)



Sister Helen (fair copy, lines 93-98, 205-273, British Library)

1879

“Three days ago, on his marriage-morn,
Page Images Available for Sister Helen (fair copy fragment, lines 225-238, British Library)



Sister Helen (fair copy fragment, lines 225-238, British Library)

1879 (circa)

Her sobs I hear her sobs with the wind's sobs wed
Page Images Available for Sister Helen (fair copy of lines 204-245, Lilly Library collection):
                    Rossetti Archive Document



Sister Helen (fair copy of lines 204-245, Lilly Library collection): Rossetti Archive Document

1881

“A lady's here, by a dark steed brought,
Page Images Available for Sister Helen (Princeton galley proofs, August 1869)



Sister Helen (Princeton galley proofs, August 1869)

1869 August

“And if you have seethed your wax aright,
Page Images Available for A Sixth English Poet (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)



A Sixth English Poet (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

1881 October 22

The hollow sound of shoreless seas is thine,
Page Images Available for The Slave (holograph manuscript)



The Slave (holograph manuscript)

1835
Page Images Available for Small Notebook 1 (British Library)



Small Notebook 1 (British Library)

1871-1879?

and passionate youth
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Small Notebook 2 (British Library)

1871-1879?

the prisoned sun moon in steep
Page Images Available for Small Notebook 3 (British Library)



Small Notebook 3 (British Library)

1871-1879?

And thin, alas! the shred
Page Images Available for Small Notebook 4 (British Library)



Small Notebook 4 (British Library)

1879-1880

Her hood falls back & the moon
Page Images Available for A Song and Music



A Song and Music

1849

O leave thy ine hand that lieth where it lies cool
Page Images Available for The Sonnet



The Sonnet

1880

A Sonnet is a moment's monument, —
Page Images Available for Sonnet ("O thou whose name being alone aloud") (corrected draft manuscript)



Sonnet ("O thou whose name being alone aloud") (corrected draft manuscript)

1848

O thou whose name, being alone, aloud
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Sonnet ("O thou whose name being alone aloud") (partial draft manuscript)

1848

O thou whose name being alone aloud
Page Images Available for The Sonnet (Rosenbach Library first corrected copy)



The Sonnet (Rosenbach Library first corrected copy)

1880

A Sonnet is a moment's monument, —
Page Images Available for The Sonnet (Rosenbach Library second corrected copy)



The Sonnet (Rosenbach Library second corrected copy)

1880

A Sonnet is a moment's monument, —
Page Images Available for Sonnet (to Dante Alighieri). He conceives of some Compensation in Death



Sonnet (to Dante Alighieri). He conceives of some Compensation in Death

1848

Dante whenever this thing happeneth,
Page Images Available for Sonnet on a first reading of “Sordello” (fair copy,
                    Houghton Library, Harvard U.)



Sonnet on a first reading of “Sordello” (fair copy, Houghton Library, Harvard U.)

1849

“Sordello's story,” (The Sphinx yawned and said,)
Page Images Available for Sonnets (Princeton/Troxell bound manuscript volume)



Sonnets (Princeton/Troxell bound manuscript volume)

1848-1881

Did she in summer write it, or in spring,
Page Images Available for Sonnets and Fragments (Princeton/Troxell bound manuscript volume)



Sonnets and Fragments (Princeton/Troxell bound manuscript volume)

1848-1881

Soft-littered is the new-year's lambing-fold,
Page Images Available for Sonnets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Tinker Library, Beinecke Rare
                    Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University)



Sonnets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Tinker Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University)

1848-50

Even as when utter summer makes the grain
Page Images Available for Soothsay (British Library corrected copy)



Soothsay (British Library corrected copy)

1870 April

The wild waifs cast up by the sea
Page Images Available for Soothsay (Princeton early fair copy manuscript)



Soothsay (Princeton early fair copy manuscript)

1871

Let no man ask you of anything
Page Images Available for Soul's Beauty (Sibylla Palmifera) (fair copy manuscript, Delaware Art Museum)



Soul's Beauty (Sibylla Palmifera) (fair copy manuscript, Delaware Art Museum)

1867

Under the arch of life, where Love and death,
Page Images Available for The Soul's Sphere (Delaware draft manuscript)



The Soul's Sphere (Delaware draft manuscript)

1873

Some prisoned moon in steep cloud-fastnesses,—
Page Images Available for Soul-Light (corrected holograph copy, Bancroft Collection)



Soul-Light (corrected holograph copy, Bancroft Collection)

1871

What other woman could be loved like you,
Page Images Available for A Soul Singing



A Soul Singing

1848

I held my breath and listened to her song:
Page Images Available for Spheral Change (Delaware draft manuscript)



Spheral Change (Delaware draft manuscript)

1881

Of all who pass me here, I know In this new shade of d Death, the show
Page Images Available for St. Agnes of Intercession (Virginia Fair Copy MS)



St. Agnes of Intercession (Virginia Fair Copy MS)

1870

“O thou who art not as I am
Page Images Available for The Staff and Scrip (corrected holograph, Humanities Research Center, U. of Texas)



The Staff and Scrip (corrected holograph, Humanities Research Center, U. of Texas)

1851-1852, 1856

“How should I your true love know
Page Images Available for The Staff and Scrip (fragmentary fair copy, corrected: Humanities Research

                    Center, U. of Texas)



The Staff and Scrip (fragmentary fair copy, corrected: Humanities Research Center, U. of Texas)

1856

“How should I your true love know
Page Images Available for The Steel's Temper that is Cold



The Steel's Temper that is Cold

1848

Her glances rested on me with a show
Page Images Available for The Subject of Imitative Painting



The Subject of Imitative Painting

1852?
Page Images Available for The Sun's Shame I (corrected fair copy, U. of British Columbia)



The Sun's Shame I (corrected fair copy, U. of British Columbia)

1869

Beholding youth and hope in mockery caught
Page Images Available for Sunday Morning: Catholic Church



Sunday Morning: Catholic Church

1849?

The Churches were lamps to my simple youth,
Page Images Available for Sunset Wings



Sunset Wings

1871

To-night this sunset spreads two golden wings
Page Images Available for Sunset Wings (Delaware draft manuscript)



Sunset Wings (Delaware draft manuscript)

1871 August

To-night this sunset is like spreads two golden wings
Page Images Available for Supreme Surrender (corrected draft, Princeton/Troxell collection)



Supreme Surrender (corrected draft, Princeton/Troxell collection)

1869 (September or early October)

To all the spirits of Love that wander by
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Supreme Surrender (corrected fair copy manuscript, British Library)

1869 September?

To all the spirits of love that wander by
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Supreme Surrender (first corrected draft, Princeton/Troxell collection)

1869 (September or early October)

To all the spirits of rest love that wander by
T
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There's a Bard of the Future named Watts

1881

There's a Bard of the Future
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There's an eminent Poet named Morris

1873?

There's an eminent Poet named Morris
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This day I excuse thee

1848 September

This day I excuse thee
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Thomas Chatterton (Delaware draft manuscript)

1880 April

With Shakespeare's manhood at a boy's wild heart,—
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Thou, whose eyes see the beautiful in life

1879 December 25

Thou, whose eyes see the beau-tiful in life,
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Threefold Homage

1868

Was I most born to paint your sovereign face,
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Threefold Homage

1868

Was I most born to paint your sovereign face,
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Through Death to Life

1848

That voice I hear,—how heard I cannot tell,—
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Through Death to Love (Delaware early draft manuscript)

1871

The AsLike labour-laden heights where the clouds moon-clouds swift fain to flee,—
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To D. G. R.

1879 September 7

I've seen the spirit 'shrined in endless shapes
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To Death, of His Lady (Fair copy manuscript, Eton College)

1869 July or 1869 August (early)

Death, of thee do I make my moan,
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[To Ford Madox Brown]

1854 July 29

Dear Brown
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To Mary in Summer

1847

Lay thine head here, Mary,
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To Mary in Summer (British Library fair copy)

1847

Lay your head here, Mary,
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To Philip Bourke Marston (fair copy, Library of Congress): Rossetti Archive Document

1878 October

Sweet Poet, thou of whom these years that roll
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Transfigured Life (corrected copy, Rosenbach Library)

1873

As growth of form or momentary glance
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Transfigured Life (fair copy, Library of Congress): Rossetti Archive Document

1873

As growth of form or momentary glance
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The Trees of the Garden (British Library fair copy)

1875?

Ye who have passed Death's haggard hills; and ye
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The Trees of the Garden (Rosenbach Library fair copy)

1875?

Ye who have passed Death's haggard hills; & we
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A Trip to Paris and Belgium [Travel Sonnets]

1849 October

These coins that jostle on my hand do own
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Troy Town (draft manuscript, U. of British Columbia)

1869 September

Time is old
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True Woman. I. Herself

1880

To be a sweetness more desired than Spring;
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True Woman. III.

1880

If to grow old in Heaven is to grow young
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Twelve Sonnets and Some Other Poems by Dante G. Rossetti (Library of Congress posthumous MS book)

1848-1881

Flowers hast thou in thyself, and foliage,
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Two Poems by F. G. Stephens

aka A Burial Place for Me

aka Oh Weary Falls the Lapsing Time

1849

A boy,—I said
V
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Venus Verticordia (corrected copy with alternate readings, British Library)

1868 or 1869

She hath it in her hand to give it thee,
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Venus Victrix (corrected holograph copy, Bancroft Collection)

1871

Could Juno's self more sovereign presence wear
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Verse and Prose by William Blake

1850?

The vision of Christ that thou dost see
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Verse Fragment from the Continent (draft manuscript)

1849?

This Squat cut[?] hedge continues to the Common with/along the Road
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[Verses to Robert Browning]

1850 April

Was this well done, thou Robert Browning?
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A Virgin and Child, by Hans Memmeling; in the Academy of Bruges (WMR corrected copy)

1849

Mystery: God, man's Life, born into man
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The Virgin Mary, Auchinleck Manuscript

1847

So reinable and wise she was
W
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Wedding Ballad

1880 May

As Elinor by the green arbour way
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Wellington's Funeral (Beinecke Library cancelled fair copy)

1852

“Victory!”
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Wellington's Funeral (draft manuscript)

1852 November

“Victory!”
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Wellington's Funeral (Lilly Library fair copy)

1869

“Victory!”
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The White Ship

1878-1880

By none but me can the tale be told,
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The White Ship (Henry I. of England.—25 November 1120): (Beinecke Library fair copy)

1880

By none but me can the tale be told,
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The White Ship (Henry I. of England.—25 November 1120): Duke University Library draft manuscript)

1880

BY none but me can the tale be told,
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William and Marie

aka William and Mary

1841

“O whither awaye, myne owne true love?
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William and Marie

1841

“O whither awaye, myne own true love?
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William Blake

1880

This is the place. Even here the dauntless soul,
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                    death-room, 3, Fountain Court, Strand.)



William Blake (to Frederick Shields, on his sketch of Blake's work-room and death-room, 3, Fountain Court, Strand.)

1880 July 13

This is the place. Even here the dauntless soul,
Page Images Available for Willowwood (corrected fair copy manuscripts, Union College Library)



Willowwood (corrected fair copy manuscripts, Union College Library)

1868-1869

I sat with Love upon a little well,
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World's Worth (late fair copy manuscript)

1879-1880

'Tis of the Father Hilary.
Y
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Youth's Antiphony (fair copy, Bancroft Collection)

1871

“I love you, sweet: how can you ever learn
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Youth and Lordship

1879-1880

My young lord's the lover
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Youth and Lordship (An Italian Street Song)

aka Gioventù e Signorìa.

aka Youth and Lordship

1879-1880

È giovine il signore,
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Youth and Lordship (Boston Public Library corrected copy)

1879-1880

My young lord's the lover