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Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poetry, by written

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  • Aspecta Medusa (for a Drawing)
    Andromeda, by Perseus sav'd and wed,
    Hanker'd each day to see the Gorgon's head:
    9 lines
  • A Superscription
    Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
    I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell;
    14 lines
  • Sudden Light
    I have been here before,
    But when or how I cannot tell:
    15 lines
  • Mary’s Girlhood (For a Picture)
    I
    This is that blessed Mary, pre-elect
    30 lines
  • My Sister’s Sleep
    She fell asleep on Christmas Eve:
    At length the long-ungranted shade
    60 lines
  • Antwerp And Bruges
    I climbed the stair in Antwerp church,
    What time the circling thews of sound
    24 lines
  • The Card-Dealer
    Could you not drink her gaze like wine?
    Yet though its splendour swoon
    54 lines
  • Joan of Arc
    This word had Merlin said from of old:—
    That out of the Oak Tree Shade
    13 lines
  • 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
  • Last Love [Canzone]
    Love hath a chamber all of imagery;
    And there is one dim nook,
    19 lines, 1 comment
  • Jenny
    Lazy laughing languid Jenny,
    Fond of a kiss and fond of a guinea,
    392 lines
  • Dis Manibus
    Gustave Flaubert, whose honoured rôle
    Was to be scribe to Nero's soul,
    10 lines
  • The Blessed Damozel
    The blessed damozel leaned out
    From the gold bar of Heaven;
    144 lines
  • Dante At Verona
    Yea, thou shalt learn how salt his food who fares
    Upon another's bread,—how steep his path
    514 lines
  • The Bride's Prelude
    “Sister,” said busy Amelotte
    To listless Alo˙se;
    920 lines
  • Ave
    Mother of the Fair Delight,
    Thou handmaid perfect in God's sight,
    112 lines
  • A Last Confession
    Our Lombard country-girls along the coast
    Wear daggers in their garters: for they know
    623 lines
  • The Portrait
    This is her picture as she was:
    It seems a thing to wonder on,
    108 lines
  • For Our Lady Of The Rocks By Leonardo Da Vinci
    Mother, is this the darkness of the end,
    The Shadow of Death? and is that outer sea
    14 lines
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