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Selections from

ROSSETTI & M O R R I S

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© Cambridge University Press 1929

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First published 1929

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P R E F A C E

T h e 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. T h e 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.

H. M. B.

June, 1929

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C O N T E N T S PAGE

Introduction . . . . . . . . I

D A N T E G A B R I E L R O S S E T T I

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.

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From The Germ, 1850

#Hand and Soul . . . . . . 82

W I L L I A M M O R R I S

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 . n o

Summer Dawn . . . . . . 1 1 1

In Prison . . . . , . . 1 1 2

From The Life and Death of Jason, 18 67

Book V I : The Passage of the Symplegades 112

Book I V : Song . . . . . . 1 1 4

From The Earthly Taradise, 1868-1870

The Prelude 115

*Atalantass 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.

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From Sigurd the Volsung, 1876

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Grey fell 136 How Sigurd awoke Brynhild upon Hindfell 139 The Last of Sigurd . . . , . . 1 4 7

From The House of the Wolfings, 1888

Tidings of the Battle in Mirkwood . „ , 1 4 9

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 . . . . 1 6 1 The Flowering Orchard . . 1 6 3

From the Catalogue of the Fourth Exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society, 1893

For a Bed . . . 1 6 4

Notes . . . . . . . . 1 6 5

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