Date: April 26 1870
"The cloud's not danced out of my brain,— / The cloud that made it turn and swim / While hour by hour the books grew dim."
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Date: April 26 1870
"Let the thoughts pass, an empty cloud!"
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Date: April 26 1870
"Why, as a volume seldom read / Being opened halfway shuts again, / So might the pages of her brain / Be parted at such words, and thence / Close back upon the dusty sense."
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Date: April 26 1870
"For is there hue or shape defin'd / In Jenny's desecrated mind, / Where all contagious currents meet, / A Lethe of the middle street?"
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Date: April 26 1870
"Enough to throw one's thoughts in heaps / Of doubt and horror,—what to say / Or think,—this awful secret sway, / The potter's power over the clay!"
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Date: April 26 1870
"Like a rose shut in a book / In which pure women may not look, / For its base pages claim control / To crush the flower within the soul."
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Date: April 26 1870
"You'd not believe by what strange roads / Thought travels, when your beauty goads / A man to-night to think of toads."
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Date: April 26 1870
"Between the threads fine fumes arise / And shape their pictures in the brain."
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Date: August-November, 1871
"[B]ut the mind of Mr. Rossetti is like a glassy mere, broken only by the dive of some water-bird or the hum of winged insects, and brooded over by an atmosphere of insufferable closeness, with a light blue sky above it, sultry depths mirrored within it, and a surface so thickly sown with water-l...
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Date: April, 1871
"There are cases where our intellect has gone through the arguments, and we give a clear assent to the conclusions. But our minds seem dry and unsatisfied."
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