The House of the Life: 36. Life-in-Love

Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)



Not in thy body is thy life at all
        But in this lady's lips and hands and eyes;
        Through these she yields thee life that vivifies
    What else were sorrow's servant and death's thrall.
    Look on thyself without her, and recall
        The waste remembrance and forlorn surmise
        That liv'd but in a dead-drawn breath of sighs
    O'er vanish'd hours and hours eventual.

    Even so much life hath the poor tress of hair
      Which, stor'd apart, is all love hath to show
      For heart-beats and for fire-heats long ago;
  Even so much life endures unknown, even where,
      'Mid change the changeless night environeth,
      Lies all that golden hair undimm'd in death.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABBAABBX CDDCEE
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 691
Words 112
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 6

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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