Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: The Portrait (fair copy manuscript)
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1869 July or 1869 August (early)
Type of Manuscript: fair copy
Scribe: DGR
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- O Lord of all compassionate control,
- O Love! let this my Lady's picture glow
- Under my hand to praise her name, and show
- Even of her inner self the perfect whole:
- That he who seeks her beauty's furthest goal,
- Beyond the light that the sweet glances throw
- And refluent wave of the sweet smile, may know
- The very sky and sea-line of her soul.
- Lo! it is done. Above the long lithe throat
- 10 The mouth's mould testifies of voice and kiss,
- The shadowed eyes remember and foresee.
- Her face is made her shrine. Let all men note
- That in all years (O Love, thy gift is this!)
- They that would look on her must come to me.
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