T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
Sonnet VII. Supreme Surrender
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti (18281882)(From The House of Life, 1881) TO all the spirits of Love that wander by | |
Along his love-sown harvest-field of sleep | |
My Lady lies apparent; and the deep | |
Calls to the deep; and no man sees but I. | |
The bliss so long afar, at length so nigh, | 5 |
Rests there attained. Methinks proud Love must weep | |
When Fate’s control doth from his harvest reap | |
The sacred hour for which the years did sigh. | |
First touched, the hand now warm around my neck | |
Taught memory long to mock desire: and lo! | 10 |
Across my breast the abandoned hair doth flow, | |
Where one shorn tress long stirred the longing ache: | |
And next the heart that trembled for its sake | |
Lies the queen-heart in sovereign overthrow. | |