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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ST. WAGNES' EVE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The hop-shop is shut up; the night doth wear
Last Line: Showed an engraving of his bas-relief.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Deverell, Walter H. (1828-1854); Hancock, John (d. 1869); Paintings And Painters; Sculpture & Sculptors
First Line: The hop-shop is shut up; the night doth wear
Last Line: Showed an engraving of his bas-relief.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Deverell, Walter H. (1828-1854); Hancock, John (d. 1869); Paintings And Painters; Sculpture & Sculptors
THE hop-shop is shut up; the night doth wear.
Here, early, Collinson this evening fell
"Into the gulfs of sleep"; and Deverell
Has turned upon the pivot of his chair
The whole of this night long; and Hancock there
Has laboured to repeat, in accents screechy,
"Guardami ben, ben son, ben son Beatrice";
And Bernhard Smith still beamed, serene and square.
By eight, the coffee was all drunk. At nine
We gave the cat some milk. Our talk did shelve,
Ere ten, to gasps and stupor. Helpless grief
Made, towards eleven, my inmost spirit pine,
Knowing North's hour. And Hancock, hard on twelve,
Showed an engraving of his bas-relief.
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