 | 1925 - 790 pages
...poet and a painter, might well have been written by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the author of these lines: Lady, I fain would tell how evermore Thy soul I know...body, nor Thee from myself, neither our love from God. The influence of Chabrier is apparent in the melodic turn of the theme and in the frequent use, in... | |
 | Jerome Hamilton Buckley - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 308 pages
...that he could seldom draw sharp distinctions: Lady, I fain could tell how evermore Thy soul I \now not from thy body, nor Thee from myself, neither our love from God. Like his painting, his love poetry at its best was thus suffused with a kind of mysticism replete with... | |
 | Margot Kathleen Louis - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 266 pages
...salvation, but with establishing that vision of identity more explicitly celebrated in "Heart's Hope": "Lady, I fain would tell how evermore / Thy soul I.../ Thee from myself, neither our love from God." So in "Love's Redemption" the reader learns to see the material body and blood of Love as divine, the... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1991 - 264 pages
...yield up the shore Even as that sea which Israel crossed dryshod? For lo! in some poor rhythmic period, Lady, I fain would tell how evermore Thy soul I know...body, nor Thee from myself, neither our love from God. Yea, in God's name, and Love's, and thine, would I Draw from one loving heart such evidence As to all... | |
 | David Clifford, Laurence Roussillon - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 299 pages
...Love, was you. Compare this poem's last lines with the conclusion to the octave of 'Heart's Hope': 18 Thy soul I know not from thy body, nor Thee from myself, neither our love from God. Shortly before her death, Levy corrected the proofs of A London Plane Tree and Other Poems (1889),... | |
 | Joseph Bristow - English poetry - 2005 - 385 pages
...abandoned in the pursuit of an erotic ideal that consciously recalls Rossetti's famous declaration "Thy soul I know not from thy body, nor / Thee from myself, neither our love from God."8 Sloth yields to the book's display of elaborate care in its making, and the ideal of an impersonal... | |
 | Jerome McGann - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 252 pages
...instinct with spirit, in precisely the sense Rossetti had in mind when he wrote to and of his lover: "Thy soul I know not from thy body, nor / Thee from myself, neither our love from God." In a (Christian) doctrinal perspective such a thought has sometimes been harshly judged: condescended... | |
 | Edwin Markham - American poetry - 1927 - 362 pages
...up the shore Even as that sea which Israel crossed dryshod? For lo ! in some poor rhythmic period, Lady, I fain would tell how evermore Thy soul I know...body, nor Thee from myself, neither our love from God. Vea, in God's name, and Love's, and thine, would I Draw from one loving heart such evidence As to all... | |
 | Drama - 1910 - 504 pages
...cycle: Youth and change, the conflict is positive, flesh and spirit intermingle, become confused. ' Lady, I fain would tell how evermore Thy soul I know...nor Thee from myself, neither our love from God.' In the ninth sonnet, passion becomes transfigured into worship, the flesh gives way: ' Then said my... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1882 - 594 pages
...sees thy soul its own. No. V. gives the motive of poetry — For lo! in some poor rhythmic period. Lady, I fain would tell how evermore Thy soul I know...body, nor Thee from myself, neither our love from God. In 'The Kiss' (VI.) Rossetti's style and treatment is typically shown — What smouldering senses in... | |
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For lo ! in some poor rhythmic period, Lady, I fain would tell how evermore Thy soul I know not from thy body, nor Thee from myself, neither our love from God. 
