Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: A Bloom in Hope's Garden
Author: William Michael Rossetti
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1848
Type of Manuscript: fair copy corrected
Scribe: DGR
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Manuscript Addition: (7 m.)
Editorial Description: Notation at lower right indicating it was written in seven minutes.
- I came upon her looking in the glass
- When all her lady- friends were gone from but she remained at home:
- I paused upon the threshold; there was some
- Awe in my heart, before I dared to pass
- Into her chamber, as the sultry grass
- Feels a cool wind upon it, or the dome
- Of Holy Peter's Church that is in Rome
- Up among angels:— even so I was.
- As I passed in half stirred moved she turned; and I gained hope
- 10 From the smile in her eyes like a sweet dream
- Of what is good and gentle put in rhyme
- By some young loving passioned poet: here the full scope
- Was reached Of all my life, I saw was gained; that beam what did but seem
- Within her eyes nor change could quench nor Before I knew it now & for all time.
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