Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти)

The House of Life. Sonnet 77. Soul's Beauty

Under the arch of Life, where love and death,
Terror and mystery, guard her shrine, I saw
Beauty enthroned; and though her gaze struck awe,
I drew it in as simply as my breath.
Hers are the eyes which, over and beneath,
The sky and sea bend on thee,—which can draw,
By sea or sky or woman, to one law,
The allotted bondman of her palm and wreath.

This is that Lady Beauty, in whose praise
Thy voice and hand shake still,—long known to thee
By flying hair and fluttering hem,—the beat
Following her daily of thy heart and feet,
How passionately and irretrievably,
In what fond flight, how many ways and days! 

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. A Bitter Song to His Lady

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