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Document Title: Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature Z (Delaware Museum, author's copy)
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of publication: 1881 May 7

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more about The Day-Dream. (For a Picture.)
THE DAY-DREAM.

(FOR A PICTURE.)
  • THE thronged boughs of the shadowy sycamore
  • Still bear young leaflets half the summer through;
  • From when the robin 'gainst the unhidden blue
  • Perched dark, till now, deep in the leafy core,
  • The embowered throstle's urgent wood-notes soar
  • Through summer silence. Still the leaves come
  • new;
  • Yet never rosy-sheathed as those which drew
  • Their spiral tongues from spring-buds heretofore.
  • Within the branching shade of Reverie
  • 10Dreams even may spring till autumn; yet none be
  • Like woman's budding day-dream spirit-fann'd.
  • Lo! tow'rd deep skies, not deeper than her look,
  • She dreams; till now on her forgotten book
  • Drops the forgotten blossom from her hand.
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more about `Found.' (For a Picture.)
“FOUND.”

(FOR A PICTURE.)
  • “THERE is a budding morrow in midnight:”—
  • So sang our Keats, our English nightingale.
  • And here, as lamps across the bridge turn pale
  • In London's smokeless resurrection-light,
  • Dark breaks to dawn. But o'er the deadly blight
  • Of love deflowered and sorrow of none avail
  • Which makes this man gasp and this woman
  • quail,
  • Can day from darkness ever again take flight?
  • Ah! gave not these two hearts their mutual pledge,
  • 10Under one mantle sheltered 'neath the hedge
  • In gloaming courtship? And O God! to-day
  • He only knows he holds her;—but what part
  • Can life now take? She cries in her locked heart,—
  • “Leave me—I do not know you—go away!”
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Note: DGR cancels the entire page and adds a note for the printer.
Printer's Direction: This must come on a separate leaf to follow.
Editorial Description: DGR's note to the printer indicating that the advert should be gathered into the book separately from the final signature.
Note: justified, centered.


Will be published immediately.

A New Edition, with Additions

POEMS,

BY DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI.

Crown 8vo, bound from the author's design.

Price 12 s.


Revised and Re-arranged Edition, crown 8vo, price 14s.

DANTE AND HIS CIRCLE;

WITH THE ITALIAN POETS PRECEDING HIM

(1100-1200-1300).

A Collection of Lyrics, Edited and Translated in the

Original Metres,

BY D. G. ROSSETTI.

This work includes a translation of

THE VITA NUOVA OF DANTE.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Source File: 2-1881.sigz.delms.rad.xml