Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 60. TRANSFIGURED LIFE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI


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First Line: As growth of form or momentary glance
Last Line: There comes the sound as of abundant rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets


AS GROWTH of form or momentary glance
In a child's features will recall to mind
The father's with the mother's face combin'd,--
Sweet interchange that memories still enhance:
And yet, as childhood's years and youth's advance,
The gradual mouldings leave one stamp behind,
Till in the blended likeness now we find
A separate man's or woman's countenance:--

So in the Song, the singer's Joy and Pain,
Its very parents, evermore expand
To bid the passion's fullgrown birth remain,
By Art's transfiguring essence subtly spann'd;
And from that song-cloud shaped as a man's hand
There comes the sound as of abundant rain.





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