“A Sonnet is a moment's monument,—
Memorial from the Soul's eternity
To one dead deathless hour.”
Dante Gabriel Rossetti The House of Life
Introductory Sonnet.
The House of Life (1870—1881)
“A sonnet is a wave of melody
From heaving waters of the impassion'd soul.”
from The Sonnets Voice (A Meterical Lesson by the Seashore).
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