{"product_id":"2940014712439","title":"THE HOUSE OF LIFE by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI","description":"ABOUT ROSSETTI'S POETIC STYLE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRossetti's poetry is marked by an extraordinary fastidiousness of expression and beauty of diction; the form and colour of his style are alike marvellous in clearness and loveliness of language. But the dominant characteristic, after all, is the underlying idea, the romantic motive. Rossetti's poetry is as full, as his pictures, of the true romantic feeling, the ever-present apprehension of the spiritual world and of that struggle of the soul with earthly conditions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEXCERPTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- LOVESIGHT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  When do I see thee most, beloved one?\u003cbr\u003e  When in the light the spirits of mine eyes\u003cbr\u003e  Before thy face, their altar, solemnize\u003cbr\u003e  The worship of that Love through thee made known?\u003cbr\u003e  Or when in the dusk hours, (we two alone,)\u003cbr\u003e  Close-kissed and eloquent of still replies\u003cbr\u003e  Thy twilight-hidden glimmering visage lies,\u003cbr\u003e  And my soul only sees thy soul its own?\u003cbr\u003e  O love, my love! if I no more should see\u003cbr\u003e  Thyself, nor on the earth the shadow of thee,\u003cbr\u003e  Nor image of thine eyes in any spring,—\u003cbr\u003e  How then should sound upon Life's darkening slope\u003cbr\u003e  The ground-whirl of the perished leaves of Hope,\u003cbr\u003e  The wind of Death's imperishable wing?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- THE KISS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  What smouldering senses in death's sick delay\u003cbr\u003e  Or seizure of malign vicissitude\u003cbr\u003e  Can rob this body of honour, or denude\u003cbr\u003e  This soul of wedding-raiment worn to-day?\u003cbr\u003e  For lo! even now my lady's lips did play\u003cbr\u003e  With these my lips such consonant interlude\u003cbr\u003e  As laurelled Orpheus longed for when he wooed\u003cbr\u003e  The half-drawn hungering face with that last lay.\u003cbr\u003e  I was a child beneath her touch,—a man\u003cbr\u003e  When breast to breast we clung, even I and she,—\u003cbr\u003e  A spirit when her spirit looked through me,—\u003cbr\u003e  A god when all our life-breath met to fan\u003cbr\u003e  Our life-blood, till love's emulous ardours ran,\u003cbr\u003e  Fire within fire, desire in deity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- NUPTIAL SLEEP\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:\u003cbr\u003e  And as the last slow sudden drops are shed\u003cbr\u003e  From sparkling eaves when all the storm has fled,\u003cbr\u003e  So singly flagged the pulses of each heart.\u003cbr\u003e  Their bosoms sundered, with the opening start\u003cbr\u003e  Of married flowers to either side outspread\u003cbr\u003e  From the knit stem; yet still their mouths, burnt red,\u003cbr\u003e  Fawned on each other where they lay apart.\u003cbr\u003e  Sleep sank them lower than the tide of dreams,\u003cbr\u003e  And their dreams watched them sink, and slid away.\u003cbr\u003e  Slowly their souls swam up again, through gleams\u003cbr\u003e  Of watered light and dull drowned waifs of day;\u003cbr\u003e  Till from some wonder of new woods and streams\u003cbr\u003e  He woke, and wondered more: for there she lay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART I. YOUTH AND CHANGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTORY SONNET\u003cbr\u003eLOVE ENTHRONED\u003cbr\u003eBRIDAL BIRTH\u003cbr\u003eREDEMPTION\u003cbr\u003eLOVESIGHT\u003cbr\u003eHEART’S HOPE\u003cbr\u003eTHE KISS\u003cbr\u003eNUPTIAL SLEEP\u003cbr\u003eSUPREME SURRENDER\u003cbr\u003eLOVE’S LOVERS\u003cbr\u003ePASSION AND WORSHIP\u003cbr\u003eTHE PORTRAIT\u003cbr\u003eTHE LOVE-LETTER\u003cbr\u003eTHE LOVERS’ WALK\u003cbr\u003eANTIPHONY\u003cbr\u003eYOUTH’S SPRING-TRIBUTE\u003cbr\u003eTHE BIRTH-BOND\u003cbr\u003eA DAY OF LOVE\u003cbr\u003eBEAUTY’S PAGEANT\u003cbr\u003eGENIUS IN BEAUTY\u003cbr\u003eSILENT NOON\u003cbr\u003eGRACIOUS MOONLIGHT\u003cbr\u003eLOVE-SWEETNESS\u003cbr\u003eHEART’S HAVEN\u003cbr\u003eLOVE’S BAUBLES\u003cbr\u003ePRIDE OF YOUTH\u003cbr\u003eWINGED HOURS\u003cbr\u003eMID-RAPTURE\u003cbr\u003eHEART’S COMPASS\u003cbr\u003eSOUL-LIGHT\u003cbr\u003eTHE MOONSTAR\u003cbr\u003eLAST FIRE\u003cbr\u003eHER GIFTS\u003cbr\u003eEQUAL TROTH\u003cbr\u003eVENUS VICTRIX\u003cbr\u003eTHE DARK GLASS\u003cbr\u003eTHE LAMP’S SHRINE\u003cbr\u003eLIFE-IN-LOVE\u003cbr\u003eTHE LOVE-MOON\u003cbr\u003eTHE MORROW’S MESSAGE\u003cbr\u003eSLEEPLESS DREAMS\u003cbr\u003eSEVERED SELVES\u003cbr\u003eTHROUGH DEATH TO LOVE\u003cbr\u003eHOPE OVERTAKEN\u003cbr\u003eLOVE AND HOPE\u003cbr\u003eCLOUD AND WIND\u003cbr\u003eSECRET PARTING\u003cbr\u003ePARTED LOVE\u003cbr\u003eBROKEN MUSIC\u003cbr\u003eDEATH-IN-LOVE\u003cbr\u003eWILLOWWOOD\u003cbr\u003eWITHOUT HER\u003cbr\u003eLOVE’S FATALITY\u003cbr\u003eSTILLBORN LOVE\u003cbr\u003eTRUE WOMAN\u003cbr\u003eLOVE’S LAST GIFT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART II. CHANGE AND FATE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTRANSFIGURED LIFE\u003cbr\u003eTHE SONG-THROE\u003cbr\u003eTHE SOUL’S SPHERE\u003cbr\u003eINCLUSIVENESS\u003cbr\u003eARDOUR AND MEMORY\u003cbr\u003eKNOWN IN VAIN\u003cbr\u003eHEART OF THE NIGHT\u003cbr\u003eTHE LANDMARK\u003cbr\u003eA DARK DAY\u003cbr\u003eAUTUMN IDLENESS\u003cbr\u003eTHE HILL SUMMIT\u003cbr\u003eTHE CHOICE\u003cbr\u003eOLD AND NEW ART\u003cbr\u003eSOUL’S BEAUTY\u003cbr\u003eBODY’S BEAUTY\u003cbr\u003eTHE MONOCHORD\u003cbr\u003eFROM DAWN TO NOON\u003cbr\u003eMEMORIAL THRESHOLDS\u003cbr\u003eHOARDED JOY\u003cbr\u003eBARREN SPRING\u003cbr\u003eFAREWELL TO THE GLEN\u003cbr\u003eVAIN VIRTUES\u003cbr\u003eLOST DAYS\u003cbr\u003eDEATH’S SONGSTERS\u003cbr\u003eHERO’S LAMP\u003cbr\u003eTHE TREES OF THE GARDEN\u003cbr\u003e‘RETRO ME, SATHANA!’\u003cbr\u003eLOST ON BOTH SIDES\u003cbr\u003eTHE SUN’S SHAME\u003cbr\u003eMICHELANGELO’S KISS\u003cbr\u003eTHE VASE OF LIFE\u003cbr\u003eLIFE THE BELOVED\u003cbr\u003eA SUPERSCRIPTION\u003cbr\u003eHE AND I\u003cbr\u003eNEWBORN DEATH\u003cbr\u003eTHE ONE HOPE","brand":"Masterpieces of English Poetry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083974918384,"sku":"2940014712439","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014712439_p0.jpg?v=1763614330","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014712439","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}