Poetry Codex

Victorian

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1828–1882

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) was an English poet and painter, a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who worked in sister arts of image and verse throughout his career.

His sonnet sequence The House of Life traces the arc of love and loss with dense, jewelled imagery, while The Blessed Damozel imagines a dead woman watching for her lover from heaven.

Major Works (6)

  1. A Last Confession — Dramatic monologue, 1870
  2. Dante at Verona — Narrative poem, 1870
  3. Jenny — Dramatic monologue, 1870
  4. Rose Mary — Ballad, 1881
  5. The Bride's Prelude — Narrative poem, 1881
  6. The King's Tragedy — Ballad, 1881

Poems (246)

  1. Introductory Sonnet
  2. Love Enthroned
  3. Bridal Birth
  4. Redemption
  5. Lovesight
  6. Heart's Hope
  7. The Kiss
  8. Nuptial Sleep
  9. Supreme Surrender
  10. Love's Lovers
  11. Passion and Worship
  12. The Portrait
  13. The Love-letter
  14. The Lovers' Walk
  15. Antiphony
  16. Youth's Spring-tribute
  17. The Birth-bond
  18. A Day of Love
  19. Beauty's Pageant
  20. Genius in Beauty
  21. Silent Noon
  22. Gracious Moonlight
  23. Love-sweetness
  24. Heart's Haven
  25. Love's Baubles
  26. Pride of Youth
  27. Winged Hours
  28. Mid-rapture
  29. Heart's Compass
  30. Soul-light
  31. The Moonstar
  32. Last Fire
  33. Her Gifts
  34. Equal Troth
  35. Venus Victrix
  36. The Dark Glass
  37. The Lamp's Shrine
  38. Life-in-love
  39. The Love-moon
  40. The Morrow's Message
  41. Sleepless Dreams
  42. Severed Selves
  43. Through Death to Love
  44. Hope Overtaken
  45. Love and Hope
  46. Cloud and Wind
  47. Secret Parting
  48. Parted Love
  49. Broken Music
  50. Death-in-love
  51. III
  52. IV
  53. Without Her
  54. Love's Fatality
  55. Stillborn Love
  56. True Woman
  57. Love's Last Gift
  58. Transfigured Life
  59. The Song-throe
  60. The Soul's Sphere
  61. Inclusiveness
  62. Ardour and Memory
  63. Known in Vain
  64. Heart of the Night
  65. The Landmark
  66. A Dark Day
  67. Autumn Idleness
  68. The Hill Summit
  69. II
  70. Old and New Art
  71. Soul's Beauty
  72. Body's Beauty
  73. The Monochord
  74. From Dawn to Noon
  75. Memorial Thresholds
  76. Hoarded Joy
  77. Barren Spring
  78. Farewell to the Glen
  79. Vain Virtues
  80. Lost Days
  81. Death's Songsters
  82. Hero's Lamp
  83. The Trees of the Garden
  84. 'retro Me, Sathana!'
  85. Lost on Both Sides
  86. I
  87. Michelangelo's Kiss
  88. The Vase of Life
  89. Life the Beloved
  90. A Superscription
  91. He and I
  92. The One Hope
  93. I
  94. II
  95. III
  96. IV
  97. V
  98. VI
  99. VII
  100. VIII
  101. IX
  102. X
  103. XI
  104. XII
  105. XIII
  106. XIV
  107. XV
  108. XVI
  109. XVII
  110. XVIII
  111. XIX
  112. XX
  113. XXI
  114. XXII
  115. XXIII
  116. XXIV
  117. XXV
  118. Mary's Girlhood
  119. "Found"
  120. Venus Verticordia
  121. La Bella Mano
  122. Pandora
  123. Mary Magdalene
  124. Proserpina
  125. Cassandra
  126. Astarte Syriaca
  127. A Sea-Spell
  128. Fiammetta
  129. The Day-Dream
  130. Mnemosyne
  131. A Little While
  132. Sudden Light
  133. Three Shadows
  134. Sister Helen
  135. The Choice
  136. The Sea-Limits
  137. The Staff and Scrip
  138. The Stream's Secret
  139. The White Ship
  140. Willow-wood I
  141. Willow-wood II
  142. Newborn Death I
  143. Newborn Death II
  144. My Sister's Sleep
  145. At the Sun-rise in 1848
  146. Autumn Song
  147. The Lady's Lament
  148. The Portrait ('This is her picture as she was')
  149. Ave
  150. The Card-Dealer
  151. World's Worth
  152. On Refusal of Aid between Nations
  153. On the Vita Nuova of Dante
  154. Song and Music
  155. A Trip to Paris and Belgium: London to Folkestone
  156. A Trip to Paris and Belgium: Boulogne to Amiens and Paris
  157. A Trip to Paris and Belgium: The Paris Railway-station
  158. A Trip to Paris and Belgium: Reaching Brussels
  159. A Trip to Paris and Belgium: Antwerp to Ghent
  160. The Staircase of Notre Dame, Paris
  161. Place de la Bastille, Paris
  162. Near Brussels: A Half-way Pause
  163. Antwerp and Bruges
  164. On Leaving Bruges
  165. Vox Ecclesiae, Vox Christi
  166. The Burden of Nineveh
  167. The Church-porch
  168. The Mirror
  169. A Young Fir-wood
  170. During Music
  171. Stratton Water
  172. Wellington's Funeral
  173. Penumbra
  174. On the Site of a Mulberry-tree
  175. On Certain Elizabethan Revivals
  176. English May
  177. Beauty and the Bird
  178. A Match with the Moon
  179. Love's Nocturn
  180. First Love Remembered
  181. Plighted Promise
  182. A New-year's Burden
  183. Even So
  184. The Woodspurge
  185. The Honeysuckle
  186. Dantis Tenebrae
  187. Words on the Window-pane
  188. An Old Song Ended
  189. The Song of the Bower
  190. Dawn on the Night-journey
  191. Troy Town
  192. Eden Bower
  193. Love-lily
  194. Sunset Wings
  195. The Cloud Confines
  196. Down Stream
  197. A Death-parting
  198. Spring
  199. Untimely Lost
  200. Parted Presence
  201. Spheral Change
  202. Alas, So Long!
  203. Insomnia
  204. Possession
  205. Chimes
  206. Adieu
  207. Soothsay
  208. Five English Poets: Thomas Chatterton
  209. Five English Poets: William Blake
  210. Five English Poets: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  211. Five English Poets: John Keats
  212. Five English Poets: Percy Bysshe Shelley
  213. To Philip Bourke Marston
  214. Tiber, Nile, and Thames
  215. Raleigh's Cell in the Tower
  216. Winter
  217. The Last Three from Trafalgar
  218. Czar Alexander the Second
  219. For an Annunciation, Early German
  220. For Our Lady of the Rocks, by Leonardo da Vinci
  221. For a Venetian Pastoral, by Giorgione
  222. For an Allegorical Dance of Women, by Andrea Mantegna
  223. For Ruggiero and Angelica, by Ingres I
  224. For Ruggiero and Angelica, by Ingres II
  225. For a Virgin and Child, by Hans Memmelinck
  226. For a Marriage of St. Catherine, by Hans Memmelinck
  227. For the Wine of Circe, by Edward Burne Jones
  228. For the Holy Family, by Michelangelo
  229. For Spring, by Sandro Botticelli
  230. The Passover in the Holy Family
  231. Michael Scott's Wooing
  232. Aspecta Medusa
  233. The Orchard-pit
  234. On Burns
  235. Fin di Maggio
  236. I saw the Sibyl at Cumae
  237. As balmy as the breath of her you love
  238. Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies?
  239. At her step the water-hen
  240. Would God I knew there were a God to thank
  241. I shut myself in with my soul
  242. If I could die like the British Queen
  243. She bound her green sleeve on my helm
  244. Where is the man whose soul has never waked
  245. As much as in a hundred years she is dead
  246. Who shall say what is said in me

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