Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 41. THROUGH DEATH TO LOVE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like labor-laden moonclouds faint to flee Last Line: Hath guest fire-fledged as thine, whose lord is love? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Death; Love; Suicide; Dead, The | ||||||||
LIKE labour-laden moonclouds faint to flee From winds that sweep the winter-bitten wold,-- Like multiform circumfluence manifold Of night's flood-tide,--like terrors that agree Of hoarse-tongued fire and inarticulate sea,-- Even such, within some glass dimmed by our breath, Our hearts discern wild images of Death, Shadows and shoals that edge eternity. Howbeit athwart Death's imminent shade doth soar One Power, than flow of stream or flight of dove Sweeter to glide around, to brood above. Tell me, my heart,--what angel-greeted door Or threshold of wing-winnowed threshing-floor Hath guest fire-fledged as thine, whose lord is Love? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND FOUND' (FOR A PICTURE) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI |
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