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cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Tokyo, Mexico City The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 8ru, UK Published in the United States of America by, New York Information on this title: /9781107692237 1929 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of. First published 1929 Reprinted 1939 First paperback edition 2011 A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library isbn 978-1-107-69223-7 Paperback has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. in this web service
PREFACE The arrangement of this Selection may need a word of explanation. Rossetti wrote little prose, and that little, although distinguished, is by general consent not deeply important. The one extract, therefore, from Hand and Sou/, seemed to fall naturally at the end of the Selections from Rossetti, although published actually before most of the poems. With Morris, however, prose and verse marched side by side, particularly after about 1870, each equally important and typical of the author; a stricter chronological arrangement has therefore been observed in the Selections from Morris. For permission to reproduce such poems by Rossetti as are still in copyright acknowledgement is due to Messrs Ellis, 29 New Bond Street; for similar permission in respect of copyright works by Morris I am indebted to the Trustees of William Morris's Estate and Messrs Longmans, Green and Co. June, 1929 H. M. B. in this web service
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CONTENTS PAGE Introduction........ I DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI From Toems, 1870 The Blessed Damozel... 30 *The Staff and Scrip..... 34 The Portrait 40 Sister Helen....... 44 *The Stream's Secret.., 51 The Card-Dealer 57 The Ballad of Dead Ladies... 58 My Father's Close...... 60 The Birth-Bond 61 Lost Days....... 61 A Superscription...... 62 Newborn Death..... 62 Love-lily....... 63 Sudden Light...... 64 The Woodspurge...... 64 Mary's Girlhood 65 From ballads and Sonnets, 1881 Down S t r e a m....... 66 The White Ship 67 Soothsay....... 76 The Cloud Confines 79 Winter 81 Spring.... 81 # Poems or passages marked with an asterisk are not printed complete. vi j in this web service
From The Germ, 1850 PAGE # Hand and Soul...... 82 WILLIAM MORRIS From The Oxford and Cambridge IMagazine, 1856 ^Frank's Sealed Letter..... 90 From The ^Defence of Guenev ere and Other Toems, 1858 A Good Knight in Prison.... 90 The Gilliflower of Gold..... 95 Shameful Death...... 97 The Eve of Crecy..... 98 The Judgment of God..... 1 0 0 The Sailing of the Sword.... 103 The Haystack in the Floods... 105 Two Red Roses across the Moon. no Summer Dawn...... 1 1 1 In Prison....,.. 1 1 2 From The Life and Death of Jason, 18 67 Book VI: The Passage of the Symplegades 112 Book IV: Song...... 1 1 4 From The Earthly Taradise, 1868-1870 The Prelude 115 *Atalanta s s Race..... 1 1 7 *The Man Born to be King.... 123 *L'Envoi 125 From Love is Enough, 1872 *The Music 128 # Poems or passages marked with an asterisk are not printed complete. viij in this web service
From Sigurd the Volsung, 1876 PAGE Sigmund receiveth his Sword from Odin.. 130 Sigurd getteth to him the Horse that is called Grey fell 136 How Sigurd awoke Brynhild upon Hindfell 139 The Last of Sigurd...,..147 From The House of the Wolfings, 1888 Tidings of the Battle in Mirkwood.,149 From The Story of the Glittering Tlain, 1891 Of the Fight of the Champions... 153 From D^ews from CJ^owhere, 1891 The Workers..... 1 5 4 Kelmscott..., 1 5 6 From Toems by the Way, 1891 The Burghers' Battle 159 Iceland First Seen....161 The Flowering Orchard..163 From the Catalogue of the Fourth Exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society, 1893 For a Bed...164 Notes........165 in this web service
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