Love
The Love-moon
From The House of Life
'When that dead face, bowered in the furthest years,
Which once was all the life years held for thee,
Can now scarce bide the tides of memory
Cast on thy soul a little spray of tears,--
How canst thou gaze into these eyes of hers
Whom now thy heart delights in, and not see
Within each orb Love's philtred euphrasy
Make them of buried troth remembrancers?'
'Nay, pitiful Love, nay, loving Pity! Well
Thou knowest that in these twain I have confess'd
Two very voices of thy summoning bell.
Nay, Master, shall not Death make manifest
In these the culminant changes which approve
The love-moon that must light my soul to Love?'
Cite this poem
MLA
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. “The Love-moon.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_d/38/.
Chicago
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. “The Love-moon.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_d/38/.
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