Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти)

The House of Life. Sonnet 88. Hero's Lamp

That lamp thou fill'st in Eros' name to-night,
O Hero, shall the Sestian augurs take
Tomorrow, and for drowned Leander's sake
To Anteros its fireless lip shall plight.
Aye, waft the unspoken vow: yet dawn's first light
On ebbing storm and life twice ebb'd must break;
While 'neath no sunrise, by the Avernian Lake,
Lo where Love walks, Death's pallid neophyte.

That lamp within Anteros' shadowy shrine
Shall stand unlit (for so the gods decree)
Till some one man the happy issue see
Of a life's love, and bid its flame to shine:
Which still may rest unfir'd; for, theirs or thine,
O brother, what brought love to them or thee?

1. The House of Life. Sonnet 82. Hoarded Joy
2. The House of Life. Sonnet 80. From Dawn to Noon
3. The House of Life. Sonnet 85. Vain Virtues
4. Returning To Brussels
5. The House of Life. Sonnet 72. The Choice - 2

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