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The House of Life
Contents:
Michelangelo’s Kiss
Great Michelangelo, with age grown bleak
And uttermost labours, having once o’ersaid
All grievous memories on his long life shed,
This worst regret to one true heart could speak:—
That when, with sorrowing love and reverence meek,
He stooped o’er sweet Colonna’s dying bed,
His Muse and dominant Lady, spirit-wed,
Her hand he kissed, but not her brow or cheek.
0 Buonarruoti,—good at Art’s fire-wheels
To urge her chariot!—even thus the Soul,
Touching at length some sorely-chastened goal,
Earns oftenest but a little: her appeals
Were deep and mute,—lowly her claim. Let be:
What holds for her Death’s garner? And for thee?
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Chicago:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "Michelangelo’s Kiss," The House of Life, ed. Sutherland, Alexander, 1853-1902 and trans. Seaton, R. C. in The House of Life (New York: George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892), Original Sources, accessed July 1, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=516LRACZ65ABA1A.
MLA:
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. "Michelangelo’s Kiss." The House of Life, edited by Sutherland, Alexander, 1853-1902, and translated by Seaton, R. C., in The House of Life, New York, George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, Original Sources. 1 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=516LRACZ65ABA1A.
Harvard:
Rossetti, DG, 'Michelangelo’s Kiss' in The House of Life, ed. and trans. . cited in ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, The House of Life, George E. Wood, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 1 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=516LRACZ65ABA1A.
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