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Document Title: Notebook Page (Rosenbach Library)
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1880
Type of Manuscript: corrected copy

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more about [Notebook Page]
more about [Who shall say]
  • Who shall say what is said in him
  • With all that he might have been dead in him?
more about La Ricordanza
  • Maggior dolore è ben la Ricordanza,
  • O nell' amaro inferno amena stanza?
more about Memory
  • Is Memory most of miseries miserable
  • Or the one flower of ease in bitterest hell?
more about Sonnet on the Sonnet
  • Fashioned with intricate infinity.
more about Sonnet on the Sonnet
  • A sonnet is a moment's monument,—
  • A medal struck to all eternity
  • For one dead deathless hour.
more about The Soul's Sphere.
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  • Tragical shadow's realm of cold things sound & sight
  • Conjectured in the lamentable night.
more about On Burns
On Burns.
  • In whomsoe'er, since Poesy began,
  • Of all men most of a Poet A Poet most of all men we may scan,
  • Burns of all poets is the most a Man.
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more about Soothsay
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  • Didst ever say, “Lo, I forget”?
  • That thought was to remember yet.
  • As in a gravegarth comst to see
  • The monuments of memory.
  • Be this thy soul's appointed scope:—
  • Gaze onward without claim to hope,
  • Nor, gazing backward, brook regret.
more about Alas, So Long!
  • Ah! dear one, we were young so long,
  • I thought that youth would never go, &c
  • Ah! dear one, I've been old so long!
  • How long until we meet again? &c
more about Salvestra on the Two Bridal-Biers
Boccaccio Lib 4 Nov 8

Salvestra; or the two Bridal-biers.
  • How sweet a solace is the bridal-bed,—
  • With dawn prepared, with evening hallowèd.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
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