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| Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(1828–1882)
Vol. 42, pp. 1149-1153,
1178-1181 of The Harvard Classics
The manuscripts of
many of the best poems of Rossetti were buried with his wife. Friends
prevailed upon him to allow them to be exhumed - and these poems,
once buried with the dead, are now a treasure of the living.
(Rossetti born May
12, 1828.)
The
Blessèd Damozel
THE BLESSÈD Damozel
lean’d out
From the gold bar of Heaven:
Her blue grave eyes were deeper much
Than a deep water, even.
She had three lilies in her hand,
And the stars in her hair were seven.
