Edward Cracroft Lefroy: His Life and Poems including a Reprint of Echoes from Theocritus: By Wilfred Austin Gill: With a Critical Estimate of the Sonnets by the late John Addington Symonds |
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XLVIII
A DREAM OF PICTURES
BY D. G. ROSSETTI
One soul through many windows looking out;One face transformed in vari-coloured moods,
But chiefly pale and sad, and framed about
With pansies plucked where Melancholy broods;
A drooping spirit strengthened but to flout
Love's life-elixir; faint, which yet eludes
All hands that succour; and half-dead with drought
Remains enamoured of her solitudes.
Alas! we may not help her. She would turn
From our poor comfort, still disconsolate;
Happy to be unhappy, glad to burn
With torturing flame which no tear-showers abate;
Yea, rapt to heaven, unblest or blest too late,
In God's own presence still would yearn and yearn.
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