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. To Thomas Woolner
2. Last Sonnets at Paris
3. The House of Life. Sonnet 81. Memorial Thresholds
4. The House of Life. Sonnet 20. Gracious Moonlight
5. The House of Life. Sonnet 52. Willowwood - 4

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