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Poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti


The House of Life. Sonnet 91. Lost on Both Sides


As when two men have loved a woman well,
Each hating each, through Love's and Death's deceit;
Since not for either this stark marriage-sheet
And the long pauses of this wedding bell;
Yet o'er her grave the night and day dispel
At last their feud forlorn, with cold and heat;
Nor other than dear friends to death may fleet
The two lives left that most of her can tell:

So separate hopes, which in a soul had wooed
The one same Peace, strove with each other long,
And Peace before their faces perished since:
So through that soul, in restless brotherhood,
They roam together now, and wind among
Its bye-streets, knocking at the dusty inns. 



Dante Gabriel Rossetti


Dante Gabriel Rossetti's other poems:
  1. Last Sonnets at Paris
  2. The House of Life. Sonnet 20. Gracious Moonlight
  3. To Thomas Woolner
  4. The House of Life. Sonnet 81. Memorial Thresholds
  5. At Issue


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