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Subject: ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL (1828-1882)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AT THE GRAVE OF DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here of a truth the world's extremes are
Last Line: Fond love's regret that ne'er they saw his face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Mackenzie
Subject(s): Graves; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Tombs; Tombstones


BEGINNINGS; FOR ROSSETTI'S FIRST PAINTING, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whether the beginnings of things notable
Last Line: And yet—it's just a question.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)


BIRCHINGTON CHURCH-YARD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A lowly hill which overlooks a flat
Last Line: Silent and neither swift nor slow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Churchyards; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)


DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All pomps and gorgeous rites, all visions old
Last Line: Nor the world vex him with her wasting care.
Subject(s): Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)


DIVERSIONS OF THE RE-ECHO CLUB, by CAROLYN WELLS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hence, vain, deluding cows
Last Line: Than to be one, anyhow.
Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Cows; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Keats, John (1795-1821); Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Poetry & Poets; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)


EASTER LILY RAG, by JEANNE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The blossoms stare in all directions of the compass
Last Line: You'd almost think they were present at the annunciation
Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Paintings And Painters; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)


IN AN ARTIST'S STUDIO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One face looks out from all his canvasses
Last Line: Not as she is, but as fills his dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Models; Paintings & Painters; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862)


ROSSETTI'S WIFE, by GAIL WHITE    Poem Source                    
First Line: He wants his poems, now: the ones he buried
Last Line: He digs you up and grabs his verses back
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Women's Rights


SONNET FOR A PICTURE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That nose is out of drawing. With a gasp
Last Line: But may be ravenously unripped in hell?
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)


THE MESSED DAMOZEL AT THE CUBIST EXHIBITION, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The messed damozel leaned out
Last Line: She simply wasn't there!
Subject(s): Heaven; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Paradise


THE P.R.B.: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The two rossettis (brothers they)
Last Line: * * * * * * *
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Millais, Sir John E. (1829-1896); Pre-raphaelites; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919); Woolner, Thomas (1825-1892)


THE P.R.B.: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The p.R.B. Is in its decadence: / for woolner in australia cooks his chops
Last Line: And so the consummated p.R.B.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Hunt, Holman (1827-1910); Language; Millais, Sir John E. (1829-1896); Pre-raphaelites; Rivers; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Smoking; Words; Vocabulary; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


THE POETS AT TEA: 8. ROSSETTI, WHO TOOK SIX CUPS OF IT, by BARRY PAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lilies lie in my lady's bower
Last Line: (o weary mother, drive the cows to roost.)
Variant Title(s): Oh! Weary Mother
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Tea


THE VOICE OF D.G.R., by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From this carved chair wherein I sit to-night
Last Line: Murmurs with waves, and sings beneath the wind.
Subject(s): Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)


TO D. G. ROSSETTI, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From out the darkness cometh never a sound
Last Line: And we inherit now its deathless pride.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Pride; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect


TO DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Master, whose very names have godlike power
Last Line: Surely my heart may speak, nor do you wrong!
Subject(s): Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)