 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1881 - 362 sider
...Lo ! how the little outcast hour has turned • SONNETS LVI., LVII., LVIII. TRUE WOMAN. I. HERSELF. To be a sweetness more desired than Spring ; A bodily...That is the flower of life : — how strange a thing ! How strange a thing to be what Man can know But as a sacred secret ! Heaven's own screen Hides her... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1881 - 362 sider
...leaped to them and in their faces yearned :— SONNETS LVI., LVII., LVIII. TRUE WOMAN. I. HERSELF. To be a sweetness more desired than Spring ; A bodily...'neath one soft bosom's swell That is the flower of life:—how strange a thing ! How strange a thing to be what Man can know But as a sacred secret! Heaven's... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1882 - 616 sider
...in their faces yearned : — THE HOUSE OF LIFE. SONNETS LVI., LVII., LVIII. TRUE WOMAN. I. HERSELF. To be a sweetness more desired than Spring ; A bodily...That is the flower of life : — how strange a thing ! How strange a thing to be what Man can know But as a sacred secret ! Heaven's own screen Hides her... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - 1882 - 384 sider
...sees Christ. Her lover has followed her and is trying to turn her back. TRUE WOMAN. I.—HERSELF. O be a sweetness more desired than Spring; A bodily...That is the flower of life :—how strange a thing! How strange a thing to be what Man can know But as a sacred secret! Heaven's own screen Hides her soul's... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1883 - 394 sider
...the wild rose-tree's arch that crowns the fell ; To be an essence more environing Than wine's drain'd juice ; a music ravishing More than the passionate...That is the flower of life : — how strange a thing ! How strange a thing to be what man can know But as a sacred secret ! Heaven's own screen Hides her... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1883 - 402 sider
...through him, and left his straight neck bent, And round his heart one strangling golden hair. TRUE WOMAN. To be a sweetness more desired than Spring ; A bodily...fell ; To be an essence more environing Than wine's drain'd juice ; a music ravishing More than the passionate pulse of Philomel ; — To be all this 'neath... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1886 - 626 sider
...— " I am your child : O parents, ye have come ! " SONNETS LV1, LVII, LV1I1. TRUE WOMAN. 1. HERSELF. To be a sweetness more desired than Spring ; A bodily...That is the flower of life : — how strange a thing ! How strange a thing to be what Man can know But as a sacred secret ! Heaven's own screen Hides her... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1887 - 362 sider
..." I am your child : O parents, ye have come ! " SONNETS LVI., LVII., LVIII. TRUE WOMAN. I. HERSELF. To be a sweetness more desired than Spring ; A bodily...That is the flower of life : — how strange a thing ! How strange a thing to be what Man can know But as a sacred secret ! Heaven's own screen Hides her... | |
 | William Michael Rossetti - 1889 - 346 sider
...my parents, ye have come ! " 56 TRUE WOMAN. (1) HERSELF, To be a sweetness more desired than Spring. To be a sweetness more desired than Spring ; a bodily beauty more cherished than the wild rose-tree's arch which crowns the fell ; to be an essence more permeating than... | |
 | Charles Henry Crandall - 1890 - 400 sider
...often throb with stress and pain. He put pretty and graceful work in this sonnet : — TRUE WOMAN. To be a sweetness more desired than Spring ; A bodily...swell That is the flower of life, how strange a thing ! How strange a thing to be what Man can know But as a sacred secret ! Heaven's own screen Hides her... | |
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To be a sweetness more desired than Spring ; A bodily beauty more acceptable Than the wild rose-tree's arch that crowns the fell ; To be an essence more environing Than wine's drained juice ; a music ravishing More than the passionate pulse of Philomel... 
