Sonnet LIX: Love's Last Gift
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
Love to his singer held a glistening leaf,
And said: “The rose-tree and the apple-tree
Have fruits to vaunt or flowers to lure the bee;
And golden shafts are in the feathered sheaf
Of the great harvest-marshal, the year's chief,
Victorious Summer; aye, and 'neath warm sea
Strange secret grasses lurk inviolably
Between the filtering channels of sunk reef.
“All are my blooms; and all sweet blooms of love
To thee I gave while Spring and Summer sang;
But Autumn stops to listen, with some pang
From those worse things the wind is moaning of.
Only this laurel dreads no winter days:
Take my last gift; thy heart hath sung my praise.”
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 633 |
Words | 115 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
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