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Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poetry, by first line

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  • A Sea-Spell
    HER lute hangs shadowed in the apple-tree,
    While flashing fingers weave the sweet-strung spell
    14 lines
  • London To Folkestone (Half-Past One To Half-Past Five)
    A constant keeping-past of shaken trees,
    And a bewildered glitter of loose road;
    56 lines
  • On The Two Bridal-Biers
    How sweet a solace is the bridal-bed—
    Dawn as prepared, evening as hallowèd
    2 lines
  • Joan of Arc
    This word had Merlin said from of old:—
    That out of the Oak Tree Shade
    13 lines
  • The House Of Life
    A Sonnet is a moment's monument,—
    Memorial from the Soul's eternity
    14 lines, 2 comments
  • Sonnet I: Love Enthroned
    I marked all kindred Powers the heart finds fair:—
    Truth, with awed lips; and Hope, with eyes upcast;
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Sonnet II: Bridal Birth
    As when desire, long darkling, dawns, and first
    The mother looks upon the newborn child,
    14 lines
  • Sonnet III: Love's Testament
    O thou who at Love's hour ecstatically
    Unto my heart dost evermore present,
    14 lines
  • Sonnet IV: Lovesight
    When do I see thee most, beloved one?
    When in the light the spirits of mine eyes
    14 lines
  • Sonnet V: Heart's Hope
    By what word's power, the key of paths untrod,
    Shall I the difficult deeps of Love explore,
    14 lines
  • Sonnet VI: The Kiss
    What smouldering senses in death's sick delay
    Or seizure of malign vicissitude
    14 lines
  • Sonnett VI: A Nuptial Sleep
    At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:
    And as the last slow sudden drops are shed
    14 lines
  • Sonnet VII: Supreme Surrender
    To all the spirits of Love that wander by
    Along his love-sown harvest-field of sleep
    14 lines
  • Sonnet VIII: Love's Lovers
    Some ladies love the jewels in Love's zone,
    And gold-tipped darts he hath for painless play
    14 lines
  • Sonnet IX: Passion And Worship
    One flame-winged brought a white-winged harp-player
    Even where my lady and I lay all alone;
    14 lines
  • Sonnet X: The Portrait
    O Lord of all compassionate control,
    O Love! let this my lady's picture glow
    14 lines
  • Sonnet XI: The Love-Letter
    Warmed by her hand and shadowed by her hair
    As close she leaned and poured her heart through thee,
    14 lines, 2 comments
  • My Sister’s Sleep
    She fell asleep on Christmas Eve:
    At length the long-ungranted shade
    60 lines
  • For An Annunciation, Early German
    The lilies stand before her like a screen
    Through which, upon this warm and solemn day,
    14 lines
  • Vox Ecclesiae, Vox Christi
    I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for
    the testimony which they held; and they cried with a loud voice, saying,
    14 lines
  • On Leaving Bruges
    The city's steeple-towers remove away,
    Each singly; as each vain infatuate Faith
    14 lines
  • Ashore At Dover
    On landing, the first voice one hears is from
    An English police-constable; a man
    14 lines
  • Antwerp And Bruges
    I climbed the stair in Antwerp church,
    What time the circling thews of sound
    24 lines
  • Antwerp To Ghent
    We are upon the Scheldt. We know we move
    Because there is a floating at our eyes
    26 lines
  • On The Road To Waterloo: 17 October (En Vigilante, 2 Hours)
    It is grey tingling azure overhead
    With silver drift. Beneath, where from the green
    14 lines
  • A Half-Way Pause
    The turn of noontide has begun.
    In the weak breeze the sunshine yields.
    14 lines
  • On The Field Of Waterloo
    So then, the name which travels side by side
    With English life from childhood—Waterloo—
    14 lines
  • Returning To Brussels
    Upon a Flemish road, when noon was deep,
    I passed a little consecrated shrine,
    14 lines
  • On The Road
    October, and eleven after dark:
    Both mist and night. Among us in the coach
    111 lines
  • Last Love [Canzone]
    Love hath a chamber all of imagery;
    And there is one dim nook,
    19 lines, 1 comment
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