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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Image of page [1] 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.
  • Image of page [2] 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.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Source File: 42-1849.sangms.rad.xml
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