Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 37. THE LOVE-MOON, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When that dead face, bowered in the furthest years Last Line: "the love-moon that must light my soul to love?" Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy | ||||||||
"WHEN that dead face, bowered in the furthest years, Which once was all the life years held for thee, Can now scarce bid the tides of memory Cast on thy soul a little spray of tears,-- How canst thou gaze into these eyes of hers Whom now thy heart delights in, and not see Within each orb Love's philtred euphrasy Make them of buried troth remembrancers?" "Nay, pitiful Love, nay, loving Pity! Well Thou knowest that in these twain I have confess'd Two very voices of thy summoning bell. Nay, Master, shall not Death make manifest In these the culminant changes which approve The love-moon that must light my soul to Love?" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A RITUAL AS OLD AS TIME ITSELF by PETER JOHNSON THE RING AND THE CASTLE by AMY LOWELL SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. MERRITT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. PURKAPILE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: TOM MERRITT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS IF THERE'S A GOD... by GREGORY ORR FOUND' (FOR A PICTURE) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI |
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