Poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Michael Scott’s Wooing

ROSE-SHEATHED beside the rosebud tongue
Lurks the young adder's tooth;
Milk-mild from new-born hemlock-bluth
The earliest drops are wrung:
And sweet the flower of his first youth
When Michael Scott was young. 

1. The Staff and Scrip
2. The House of Life. Sonnet 51. Willowwood - 3
3. The House of Life. Sonnet 38. The Morrow's Message
4. The House of Life. Sonnet 40. Severed Selves
5. The House of Life. Sonnet 44. Cloud and Wind

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