Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти)

The House of Life. Sonnet 66. The Heart of the Night

From child to youth; from youth to arduous man;
From lethargy to fever of the heart;
From faithful life to dream-dower'd days apart;
From trust to doubt; from doubt to brink of ban;—
Thus much of change in one swift cycle ran
Till now. Alas, the soul!—how soon must she
Accept her primal immortality,—
The flesh resume its dust whence it began?

O Lord of work and peace! O Lord of life!
O Lord, the awful Lord of will! though late,
Even yet renew this soul with duteous breath:
That when the peace is garner'd in from strife,
The work retriev'd, the will regenerate,
This soul may see thy face, O Lord of death!

1. Ashore at Dover
2. The House of Life. Sonnet 32. Equal Troth
3. The Lady’s Lament
4. The House of Life. Sonnet 33. Venus Victrix
5. At Issue

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