Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Quotes about the trip

Dante Gabriel Rossetti was English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. Explore interesting quotes on way.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: 66 quotes0 likes

“Now kiss, and think that there are really those,
My own high-bosom'd beauty, who increase
Vain gold, vain lore, and yet might choose our way!
Through many years they toil; then on a day
They die not, — for their life was death, — but cease;
And round their narrow lips the mould falls close.”

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Choice

“Still we say as we go,—
"Strange to think by the way
Whatever there is to know,
That shall we know one day."”

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Cloud Confines, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Each hour until we meet is as a bird
That wings from far his gradual way along
The rustling covert of my soul.”

Dante Gabriel Rossetti The House of Life

Winged Hours.
The House of Life (1870—1881)

“Tell me now in what hidden way is
Lady Flora the lovely Roman?
Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais,
Neither of them the fairer woman?
Where is Echo, beheld of no man,
Only heard on river and mere—
She whose beauty was more than human?—
But where are the snows of yester-year?”

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Ballad of Dead Ladies http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/roset03.html#13, st. 1 (1870).