/lit/ - Literature

>>16810572
what is this lol

here is a bit from a longer Rossetti poem:

We oped our curtains, to resume
Sun-sickness after long sick gloom,
The withering sea-wind walked the room. 700
Through the gaunt windows the great gales
Bore in the tattered clumps
Of waif-weed and the tamarisk-boughs;
And sea-mews, ’mid the storm’s carouse,
Were flung, wild-clamouring, in the house. 705
“My hounds I had not; and my hawk,
Which they had saved for me,
Wanting the sun and rain to beat
His wings, soon lay with gathered feet;
And my flowers faded, lacking heat.

>>16731853
Dante Gabriel Rossetti isn't mentioned much, I think he is a top tier English poet(ethnically Italian though)

Even so much life hath the poor tress of hair
Which, stor'd apart, is all love hath to show
For heart-beats and for fire-heats long ago;
Even so much life endures unknown, even where,
'Mid change the changeless night environeth,
Lies all that golden hair undimm'd in death.