



Produced by A. Elizabeth Warren









The House of Life


by

Dante Gabriel Rossetti




  Part I. YOUTH AND CHANGE


  INTRODUCTORY SONNET

  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