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==Text== | ==Text== | ||
| − | + | A sonnet is a moment's monument, --<br> | |
| − | A sonnet is a moment's monument, -- | + | Memorial from the Soul's eternity<br> |
| − | + | To one dead deathless hour. Look that it be,<br> | |
| − | Memorial from the Soul's eternity | + | Whether for lustral rite or dire portent,<br> |
| − | + | Of its own arduous fulness reverent:<br> | |
| − | To one dead deathless hour. Look that it be, | + | Carve it in ivory or in ebony,<br> |
| − | + | As Day or Night may rule; and let Time see<br> | |
| − | Whether for lustral rite or dire portent, | + | Its flowering crest impearled and orient.<br> |
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| − | Of its own arduous fulness reverent: | + | A Sonnet is a coin: its face reveals<br> |
| − | + | The soul, -- its converse, to what Power 'tis due: --<br> | |
| − | Carve it in ivory or in ebony, | + | Whether for tribute to the august appeals<br> |
| − | + | Of Life, or dower in Love's high retinue,<br> | |
| − | As Day or Night may rule; and let Time see | + | It serve, or, 'mid the dark wharf's cavernous breath,<br> |
| − | + | In Charon's palm it pay the toll of Death.<br> | |
| − | Its flowering crest impearled and orient. | + | |
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| − | A Sonnet is a coin: its face reveals | + | |
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| − | The soul, -- its converse, to what Power 'tis due: -- | + | |
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| − | Whether for tribute to the august appeals | + | |
| − | + | ||
| − | Of Life, or dower in Love's high retinue, | + | |
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| − | It serve, or, 'mid the dark wharf's cavernous breath, | + | |
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| − | In Charon's palm it pay the toll of Death. | + | |
==Critical Edition== | ==Critical Edition== | ||
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti. "The Sonnet [1881]." ''The Works''. Ed. William Michael Rossetti. Hildesheim, New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1972. 74. | Dante Gabriel Rossetti. "The Sonnet [1881]." ''The Works''. Ed. William Michael Rossetti. Hildesheim, New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1972. 74. | ||
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==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
| − | + | *Wagner, Jennifer A. "A Moment's Monument: Temporal Revision and the Sonnet Form of D. G. Rossetti." Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, 4 (1995 Spring), pp. 75-84. | |
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
| + | *[http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/1-1880.s258.raw.html Information, Rossetti Archive] | ||
| + | *[http://www.rossettiarchive.org/img/2-1881.1ed.161.jpg First Edition Text, Rossetti Archive] | ||
| + | *[http://www.rossettiarchive.org/zoom/s258.img.html Pen and ink, Rossetti Archive] | ||
[[Category:19th century|1880]] | [[Category:19th century|1880]] | ||
[[Category:1880s|1880]] | [[Category:1880s|1880]] | ||
[[Category:By author|Rossetti, Dante Gabriel]] | [[Category:By author|Rossetti, Dante Gabriel]] | ||
Latest revision as of 14:16, 8 April 2008
Text
A sonnet is a moment's monument, --
Memorial from the Soul's eternity
To one dead deathless hour. Look that it be,
Whether for lustral rite or dire portent,
Of its own arduous fulness reverent:
Carve it in ivory or in ebony,
As Day or Night may rule; and let Time see
Its flowering crest impearled and orient.
A Sonnet is a coin: its face reveals
The soul, -- its converse, to what Power 'tis due: --
Whether for tribute to the august appeals
Of Life, or dower in Love's high retinue,
It serve, or, 'mid the dark wharf's cavernous breath,
In Charon's palm it pay the toll of Death.
Critical Edition
Dante Gabriel Rossetti. "The Sonnet [1881]." The Works. Ed. William Michael Rossetti. Hildesheim, New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1972. 74.
Further Reading
- Wagner, Jennifer A. "A Moment's Monument: Temporal Revision and the Sonnet Form of D. G. Rossetti." Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, 4 (1995 Spring), pp. 75-84.
