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Dante Gabriel Rossetti - To Philip Bourke Marston, Inciting Me To Poetic Work
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SWEET Poet, thou of whom these years that roll 
Must one day yet the burdened birthright learn, 
And by the darkness of thine eyes discern 
How piercing was the sight within thy soul;— 
Gifted apart, thou goest to the great goal, 
A cloud-bound radiant spirit, strong to earn, 
Light-reft, that prize for which fond myriads yearn 
Vainly light-blest,—the Seër`s aureole.
And doth thine ear, divinely dowered to catch 
All spheral sounds in thy song blent so well, 
Still hearken for my voice`s slumbering spell 
With wistful love? Ah! let the Muse now snatch 
My wreath for thy young brows, and bend to watch 
Thy veiled transfiguring sense`s miracle.
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