Quotes from work
The House of Life

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell.”

Dante Gabriel Rossetti The House of Life

A Superscription. Compare: "My name is might have been; my name is never was; my name's forgotten", Courtney Love (with Hole), "Celebrity Skin".
Source: The House of Life (1870—1881)

“Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone,
But as the meaning of all things that are.”

Dante Gabriel Rossetti The House of Life

Heart's Compass.
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“When all desire at last and all regret
Go hand in hand to death, and all is vain,
What shall assuage the unforgotten pain
And teach the unforgetful to forget?”

Dante Gabriel Rossetti The House of Life

Newborn Death.
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“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.
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“And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,
Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns away
All shafts of shelterless tumultuous day.”

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

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Winged Hours.
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“Even as the moon grows queenlier in mid-space
When the sky darkens, and her cloud-rapt car
Thrills with intenser radiance from afar,—
So lambent, lady, beams thy sovereign grace
When the drear soul desires thee.”

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Gracious Moonlight.
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“At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:
And as the last slow sudden drops are shed
From sparkling eaves when all the storm has fled,
So singly flagged the pulses of each heart.”

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Nuptial Sleep.
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“Beauty like hers is genius.”

Dante Gabriel Rossetti The House of Life

Genius in Beauty.
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