title  See WMR's note (1911)
4Â Â The line draws a subtle relation between two kinds of lust (for wealth and for sensual pleasure).
5-6Â Â The lines anticipate the portrait of Leonardo's Mona Lisa elaborated by Pater in his famous essay (which was published in the Fortnightly Review in 1871, after DGR's poem and painting had appeared).
7Â Â Draws: the wordplay picks up from the related puns in the companion sonnet (Soul's Beauty).
9Â Â The line first named âRose, foxglove, poppyâ as âher flowers.â Rose signifies (sensual) love; foxglove, insincerity and perhaps wishing (it is also the flower traditionally thought to house souls of the dead); the poppy signifies sleep.
14Â Â The line can scarcely not recall the sestet of âLife-in-Loveâ, as well as that sonnet's general treatment of the hair motif. The two sonnets evoke strongly conflicting sets of images and associations.