Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CHIMES: 5, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI


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First Line: Beauty's body and benison
Last Line: With a blast on either hand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Alliterative Verse


Beauty's body and benison
With a bosom-flower new-blown.

Bitter beauty and blessing bann'd
With a breast to burn and brand.

Beauty's bower in the dust o'erblown
With a bare white breast of bone.

Barren beauty and bower of sand
With a blast on either hand.





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