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. The House of Life. Sonnet 40. Severed Selves
2. The House of Life. Sonnet 90. «Retro Me, Sathana!»
3. The House of Life. Sonnet 35. The Lamp's Shrine
4. Words on the Window-Pane
5. The House of Life. Sonnet 37. The Love-Moon

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