Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I have been here before,

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I am not as these are, the poet saithAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

From perfect grief there need not beThe woodspurge has a cup of three.

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Tell me now in what hidden way isBut where are the snows of yester-year?

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I have been here before,The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

If the light isIt is because God said 'Let there be light.'

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The blessed damozel lean'd outAnd the stars in her hair were seven.

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Around her, lovers, newly met Went by her like thin flames.

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

From the fix'd place of Heaven she saw The stars sang in their spheres.

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The sun was gone now; the curl'd moon Had when they sang together.

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

We two will stand beside that shrine, Each like a little cloud.

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

We two will lie i' the shadow of Saith His Name audibly.

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

A Sonnet is a moment's monument,—To one dead deathless hour.

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:So singly flagged the pulses of each heart.

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Even as the moon grows queenlier in mid-spaceWhen the drear soul desires thee.

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,All shafts of shelterless tumultuous day.

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Each hour until we meet is as a birdThe rustling covert of my soul.

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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

— 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

When all desire at last and all regretAnd teach the unforgetful to forget?

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Eat thou and drink; to-morrow thou shalt die. Shall leap, as fountains veil the changing sky.

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Now kiss, and think that there are really those, And round their narrow lips the mould falls close.

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Watch thou and fear; to-morrow thou shalt die.

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Now while we speak, the sun speeds forth: can I Though screen'd and hid, shall walk the daylight here.

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Think thou and act; to-morrow thou shalt die Than they who sow'd, that thou shouldst reap thereby?

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Nay, come up hither. From this wave-wash'd mound Still, leagues beyond those leagues, there is more sea.

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti