English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The House of Life. Sonnet 59. Love’s Last Gift. Данте Габриэль Россетти.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти)

The House of Life. Sonnet 59. Love’s Last Gift

Love to his singer held a glistening leaf,
And said: "The rose-tree and the apple-tree
Have fruits to vaunt or flowers to lure the bee;
And golden shafts are in the feathered sheaf
Of the great harvest-marshal, the year's chief,
Victorious Summer; aye, and 'neath warm sea
Strange secret grasses lurk inviolably
Between the filtering channels of sunk reef.

All are my blooms; and all sweet blooms of love
To thee I gave while Spring and Summer sang;
But Autumn stops to listen, with some pang
From those worse things the wind is moaning of.
Only this laurel dreads no winter days:
Take my last gift; thy heart hath sung my praise."

Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s other poems:

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

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