Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: For a Marriage of St. Katharine, by the same
(Hans Memmeling) (WMR corrected copy)
Author: DGR
Date of Composition: 1849
Type of Manuscript: corrected fair copy
Scribe: WMR
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page: [1]
Transcription Gap: beginning of page (another poem)
Manuscript Addition: 475
Editorial Description: In the upper right corner, the page number of WMR's projected volume.
Manuscript Addition: Rossetti
Editorial Description: WMR's pencil note in the upper left corner
For A Marriage of St. Katharine, by the
Same, in the Hospital of St. John at
Bruges.
- Mystery: Katherine, the bride of Christ.
page: [2]
Manuscript Addition: 476
Editorial Description: In the upper right corner, the page number of WMR's projected volume.
Manuscript Addition: Rossetti
Editorial Description: WMR's pencil note in the upper left corner
- She kneels, & on her hand the holy Child
- Set
teth
now the ring. Her life is
sad
hushed & mild,
- Laid in God's Knowledge—ever unenticed
- From
Him
God, & in the end thus fitly priced.
- Awe, & the music that is near her, wrought
- Of angels, have possessed her eyes in
- thought:
- Her utter joy is hers, and hath sufficed.
- There is a pause while Mary Virgin turns
-
10 The leaf, & reads. With eyes on the spread
- book,
- That damsel at her knees reads after
- her.
- John whom He loved, & John His har-
- binger,
- Listen & watch. Whereonsoe'er thou look,
- The light is starred in gems, & the gold burns.
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