<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360785" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The House of Life: The Sonnet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Sonnet is a moment's monument,<br> Memorial from the Soul's eternity<br> To one dead deathless hour. Look that it be,<br> Whether for lustral rite or dire portent,<br> Of its own arduous fulness reverent:<br> Carve it in ivory or in ebony,<br> As Day or Night may rule; and let Time see<br> Its flowering crest impearl'd and orient.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> A Sonnet is a coin: its face reveals<br> The soul,--its converse, to what Power 'tis due: --<br> Whether for tribute to the august appeals<br> Of Life, or dower in Love's high retinue,<br> It serve; or, 'mid the dark wharf's cavernous breath,<br> In Charon's palm it pay the toll to Death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dante+Gabriel+Rossetti">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360785" data-title="The House of Life: The Sonnet de Dante Gabriel Rossetti" data-description="A Sonnet is a moment's monument, Memorial from the Soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour. Look that it be, Whether for lustral rite or dire portent, Of its own arduous fulness reverent: Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As Day or Night may..."></div> </div> </div>

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