Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: Fruit from 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: (8 m.)
Editorial Description: Notation at lower right indicating it was written in eight minutes.
- I still stood pausing:—with a smile she rose
- Speaking some words in her most gentle tone
- Of voice—that voice so musical which none
- Can equal—with a hushed, serene repose
- Of love about her, like a flame that goes
- Intensely Burning aloft to heaven: the heart up: not love alone
- Gave her that look But certainty of faith which in within her shone
- Even as a bride's or as an angel's does.
- She knew the pulses of the heart of him
- 10 Who stood before her; she knew all his life
- And all Which is his love;—(I tell this, friend, to you,
- But to none other);—her great eyes were dim
- With heavy fainting passion and the woman's strife
- 'Twixt wish and will that made me tremble thro'.
W.M.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Source File:
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