Posts Tagged ‘sonnet’
Poem of the Month: Christina Rossetti’s “In an Artist’s Studio”
Dante Gabriel Rossetti drew numerous pictures of his model, muse and later wife Elizabeth Siddal. The Rossetti Archive exhibits many portraits from 1850-1861, such as those given here. When his sister Christina’s poem “In an Artist’s [...]
Poem of the Month: May
Christina Rossetti, “May” I cannot tell you how it was, But this I know: it came to pass Upon a bright and sunny day When May was young; ah, pleasant May! As yet the poppies were not born Between the blades of tender corn; The last egg had not hatched as yet, Nor any bird [...]
Poem of the Month March
SONNET. INEZ TO MANUEL. I think of thee !—and all my Soul is made The subject of that one most Sovereign Thought: That Thought is me!—thus thou art me!—sole sought And only chosen one!—the adored!—the obeyed!— That Thought, methinks, when Life must flower-like fade, Shall first rise up to heaven!—sublimely fraught With Immortality, not then first [...]
