Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти)

The House of Life. Sonnet 33. Venus Victrix

Could Juno's self more sovereign presence wear
Than thou, 'mid other ladies throned in grace?--
Or Pallas, when thou bend'st with soul-stilled face
O'er poet's page gold-shadowed in thy hair?
Dost thou than Venus seem less heavenly fair
When o'er the sea of love's tumultous trance
Hovers thy smile, and mingles with thy glance
That sweet voice like the last wave murmuring there?

Before such triune loveliness divine
Awestruck I ask, which goddess here most claims
The prize that, howsoe'er adjudged, is thine?
Then Love breathes low the sweetest of thy names;
And Venus Victrix to my heart doth bring
Herself, the Helen of thy guerdoning.

1. Last Sonnets at Paris
2. The House of Life. Sonnet 17. Beauty's Pageant
3. The House of Life. Sonnet 61. The Song-Throe
4. The House of Life. Sonnet 32. Equal Troth
5. The House of Life. Sonnet 48. Death-in-Love

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