Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти)

The House of Life. Sonnet 21. Love-Sweetness

Sweet dimness of her loosened hair's downfall
About thy face; her sweet hands round thy head
In gracious fostering union garlanded;
Her tremulous smiles; her glances' sweet recall
Of love; her murmuring sighs memorial;
Her mouth's culled sweetness by thy kisses shed
On cheeks and neck and eyelids, and so led
Back to her mouth which answers there for all:--

What sweeter than these things, except the thing
In lacking which all these would lose their sweet:--
The confident heart's still fervour; the swift beat
And soft subsidence of the spirit's wing,
Then when it feels, in cloud-girt wayfaring,
The breath of kindred plumes against its feet?

1. At Issue
2. Ave
3. Another Love
4. The House of Life. Sonnet 27. Heart's Compass
5. The House of Life. Sonnet 39. Sleepless Dreams

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