Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти)

The House of Life. Sonnet 45. Secret Parting

Because our talk was of the cloud-control
And moon-track of the journeying face of Fate,
Her tremulous kisses faltered at love's gate
And her eyes dreamed against a distant goal:
But soon, remembering her how brief the whole
Of joy, which its own hours annihilate,
Her set gaze gathered, thirstier than of late,
And as she kissed, her mouth became her soul.

Thence in what ways we wandered, and how strove
To build with fire-tried vows the piteous home
Which memory haunts and whither sleep may roam,--
They only know for whom the roof of Love
Is the still-seated secret of the grove,
Nor spire may rise nor bell be heard therefrom.

1. Ashore at Dover
2. The House of Life. Sonnet 32. Equal Troth
3. The House of Life. Sonnet 37. The Love-Moon
4. The House of Life. Sonnet 9. Passion and Worship
5. The House of Life. Sonnet 40. Severed Selves

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