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Document Title: Proserpina (British Library fair copy)
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1872
Type of Manuscript: fair copy

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Note: Bookplate with standing female angel blowing trumpet and seated female angel. Between the two figures is a flowing banner on which is inscribed the owner's name. Below the figures and the ower's name is an inscribed poem.
THOMAS

JAMES WISE

HIS BOOK

  • BOOKS BRING ME FRIENDS
  • WHERE'ER ON EARTH I BE.
  • SOLACE OF SOLITUDE-
  • BONDS OF SOCIETY!
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more about Proserpina
more about Proserpina
Proserpina.
  • Lungi la luce che in sù questo muro
  • Mi giunge appena, un breve istante scorta
  • Del mio palazzo alla lontana porta.
  • Lungi quei fiori d'Enna, O lido oscuro,
  • Dal frutto tuo fatal per cui Snaturo —
  • Lungi quel cielo dal tartareo manto
  • Che qui mi cuopre: e lungi ahi lungi ahi quanto
  • Le notti che saran dai dì che furo!
  • Lungi da me mi sento; e ognor sognando,
  • 10 Cerco e ricerco, e resto ascoltatrice;
  • E qualche cuore a qualche anima dice,
  • (Di cui mi giunge il suon di quando in quando,
  • Continuamente insieme sospirando,)—
  • “Oimè per te, Proserpina infelice!”
Transcription Gap: Ballads and Sonnets text (relevance to document questionable)
Transcribed Note (page [1]):
Note: In this bound volume, Wise included the text from the fourth edition (1882) of DGR's Ballads and Sonnets, which has been omitted in this transcription.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Source File: 1-1872.blms.rad.xml
Copyright: By permission of the British Library