Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: Lines from the Roman de la Rose
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1850
Type of Manuscript: holograph fair copy
Scribe: DGR
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page: [1a]
Manuscript Addition: 11
Editorial Description: WMR's pagination number in upper right corner
- Tendre eut la chair comme rousée,
- Simple fut comme une épousée
- Et blanche comme fleur de lys;
- Visage eut bel, doux et alis;
- Elle était grèle et alignée,
- N'était fardée
nè pignée,
- Car elle n'avait pas métier
- De soi farder et affaictier.
- Les cheveux eut blonde et si longe
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10Quils lui battaient aux talons:
- Elle eut bien faits nez, yeux et bouche.
- Moult grand douleur au coeur me touche
- Quand de sa beauté me remembre.
Roman de la Rose.
page: [1b]
Manuscript Addition: By Gabriel
Editorial Description: WMR's note below the translation.
- Tender as dew her cheeks' warm life;
- She was as simple as a wife,
- She was as white as lilies are.
- Her face was sweet & smooth & fair:
- Slender & very straight she was,
- And on her cheeks no paint might pass.
- Her fair hair was so long that it
- Shook when she walked about her feet:
- Eyes, nose & mouth were perfect art.
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10 Exceeding pain is at my heart
- When I remember me of her.
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