The works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
| dc.contributor | Turk, Christopher, 1942- Department of English College of Cardiff, University of Wales Chepstow |
| dc.contributor.author | Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 |
| dc.coverage.placeName | London |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T11:00:53Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T11:00:53Z |
| dc.date.created | 1882 |
| dc.date.issued | 1983-08-04 |
| dc.identifier | ota:0217 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/0217 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/0217 |
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| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 434 KB) |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | English poetry -- 19th century |
| dc.subject.other | Poems |
| dc.title | The works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti / Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| dc.type | Text |
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| files.count | 2 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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THE BLESSED DAMOZEL
THE blessed damozel leaned out
From the gold bar of Heaven ;
Her eyes were deeper than the depth
Of waters stilled at even ;
She had three lilies in her hand,
And the stars in her hair were seven.
Her robe, ungirt from clasp to hem,
No wrought flowers did adorn,
But a white rose of Mary's gift,
For service meetly worn ;
Her hair that lay along her back
Was yellow like ripe corn.
Herseemed she scarce had been a day
One of God's choristers ;
The wonder was not yet quite gone
From that still look of hers ;
Albeit, to them she left, her day
Had counted as ten years.
(To one, it is ten years of years.
. . . Yet now, and in this place,
Surely she leaned o'er me--her hair
Fell all about my face. . .
Nothing : the autumn-fall of leaves.
The whole year sets apace.)
It was the rampart of God's house
That she was standing on ;
By God built over the sheer depth
The which is Space begun ;
So high, that looking downward thence
She scarce could see the sun.
It lies in Heaven, acro . . .
