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Poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life. Sonnet 52. Willowwood – 4

So sang he: and as meeting rose and rose
Together cling through the wind's wellaway
Nor change at once, yet near the end of day
The leaves drop loosened where the heart-stain glows,--
So when the song died did the kiss unclose;
And her face fell back drowned, and was as grey
As its grey eyes; and if it ever may
Meet mine again I know not if Love knows.

Only I know that I leaned low and drank
A long draught from the water where she sank,
Her breath and all her tears and all her soul:
And as I leaned, I know I felt Love's face
Pressed on my neck with moan of pity and grace,
Till both our heads were in his aureole.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s other poems:

1. The House of Life. Sonnet 17. Beauty’s Pageant
2. The Staff and Scrip
3. The House of Life. Sonnet 35. The Lamp’s Shrine
4. The House of Life. Sonnet 92. The Sun’s Shame – 1
5. The House of Life. Sonnet 21. Love-Sweetness

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