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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 21. LOVE-SWEETNESS, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet dimness of her loosened hair's downfall
Last Line: The breath of kindred plumes against its feet?
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Passion
First Line: Sweet dimness of her loosened hair's downfall
Last Line: The breath of kindred plumes against its feet?
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Passion
SWEET dimness of her loosened hair's downfall
About thy face; her sweet hands round thy head
In gracious fostering union garlanded;
Her tremulous smiles; her glances' sweet recall
Of love; her murmuring sighs memorial;
Her mouth's culled sweetness by thy kisses shed
On cheeks and neck and eyelids, and so led
Back to her mouth which answers there for all:--
What sweeter than these things, except the thing
In lacking which all these would lose their sweet:--
The confident heart's still fervour: the swift beat
And soft subsidence of the spirit's wing,
Then when it feels, in cloud-girt wayfaring,
The breath of kindred plumes against its feet?
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