Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти)

The House of Life. Sonnet 6a. Nuptial Sleep

At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:
And as the last slow sudden drops are shed
From sparkling eaves when all the storm has fled,
So singly flagged the pulses of each heart.
Their bosoms sundered, with the opening start
Of married flowers to either side outspread
From the knit stem; yet still their mouths, burnt red,
Fawned on each other where they lay apart.

Sleep sank them lower than the tide of dreams,
And their dreams watched them sink, and slid away.
Slowly their souls swam up again, through gleams
Of watered light and dull drowned waifs of day;
Till from some wonder of new woods and streams
He woke, and wondered more: for there she lay.

1. The House of Life. Sonnet 26. Mid-Rapture
2. The House of Life. Sonnet 38. The Morrow's Message
3. The House of Life. Sonnet 61. The Song-Throe
4. The House of Life. Sonnet 70. The Hill Summit
5. The House of Life. Sonnet 14. Youth's Spring-Tribute

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