John Stenzel
English 46C
Spring 2000

Here's that sonnet that I read today in class--the one that regrettably was omitted from Norton 7th. Enjoy!

D.G Rossetti Sonnet 63

The changing guests, each in a different mood,

Sit at the roadside table and arise;

And every life among them in like wise

Is a soul's board set daily with new food.

What man has bent o'er his son's sleep, to brood

How that face shall watch his when cold it lies?--

Or thought, as his own mother kissed his eyes,

Of what her kiss was when his father wooed?

May not this ancient room thou sitt'st in dwell

In separate living souls for joy or pain?

Nay, all its corners may be painted plain

Where Heaven shows picture of some life spent well;

And may be stamped, a memory all in vain,

Upon the sight of lidless eyes in Hell.


Last updated: 20 April 2000