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Genius in Beauty by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

12/5/2008 2:33:14 AM
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(1828-1882)
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Genius in Beauty
 
  Beauty like hers is genius. Not the call
Of Homer's or of Dante's heart sublime, --
Not Michael's hand furrowing the zones of time, --
Is more with compassed mysteries musical;
Nay, not in Spring's Summer's sweet footfall
More gathered gifts exuberant Life bequeaths
Than doth this sovereign face, whose love-spell breathes
Even from its shadowed contour on the wall.

As many men are poets in their youth,
But for one sweet-strung soul the wires prolong
Even through all change the indomitable song;
So in likewise the envenomed years, whose tooth
Rends shallower grace with ruin void of truth,
Upon this beauty's power shall wreak no wrong.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti


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Ford Madox Makepeace (5/8/2006 12:00:00 PM)
Is it just me or is it a little bit clumsy at times? 'Rends shallower grace with ruin void of truth.' Is that a truthless ruin? Or a ruin which has run out of truth? And rends with ruin? Can you say that?
Too much beautiful genius, methinks. The fool on the stool looks like your worshipful philosopher. What about Genius in Shit? Did he ever write that?
Like 'compassed mysteries musical' though, destruction of syntax for something greater than forms.
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