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Poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life. Sonnet 38. The Morrow’s Message

"Thou Ghost," I said, "and is thy name To-day?--
Yesterday's son, with such an abject brow!--
And can To-morrow be more pale than thou?"
White yet I spoke, the silence answered: "Yea,
Henceforth our issue is all grieved and grey,
And each beforehand makes such poor avow
As of old leaves beneath the budding bough
Or night-drift that the sundawn shreds away."

Then cried I: "Mother of many malisons,
O Earth, receive me to thy dusty bed!"
But therewithal the tremulous silence said:
"Lo! Love yet bids thy lady greet thee once:--
Yea, twice,--whereby thy life is still the sun's;
And thrice,--whereby the shadow of death is dead."

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s other poems:

  1. The House of Life. Sonnet 17. Beauty’s Pageant
  2. The House of Life. Sonnet 50. Willowwood – 2
  3. The Staff and Scrip
  4. The House of Life. Sonnet 35. The Lamp’s Shrine
  5. The House of Life. Sonnet 92. The Sun’s Shame – 1

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