In 1908 Blackie commissioned Florence Harrison to illustrate several books. We have shown Poemsby Christina Rossettiin 2015.
The illustrationsofThe Early poems of William Morris which appeared in 1914 are now presented.
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The illustrationsofThe Early poems of William Morris which appeared in 1914 are now presented.
Frontispiece
“…In that garden fair
Came Launcelot walking; this is true the kiss
W’herewith we kissed in meeting that spring day,
I scarce dare talk of the remember’d bliss.”
The Defence of Guenevere
And one of these strange choosing cloths was blue,
Wavy and long, and one cut short and red;
No man could tell the better of the two.
No man could tell the better of the two.
"Guenevere! Guenevere!
Do you not know me; are you gone mad?"
"Rise up, and look and listen, Galahad"
How thief! thief! thief! so there, fair thief, so there
Suppose this had not happen'd after all; I will lean out again and watch for news.
My mother taught me prayers
To say when I had need.
"O, sisters, cross the bridge with me,
My eyes are full of sand.
What matter that I cannot see.
If ye take me by the hand?”
Fair Jehane du Castel beau
Wore her wreath till it was dead.
But she is a housewife good and wary,
And a great steel key hangs bright
From her gown, as red as the flowers in corn.
Beneath an apple-tree our heads
Stretched out toward the sea.
No one walks there now;
Except in the white moonlight
The white ghosts walk in a row.
Then Godmar turn’d again and said:
“ So, Jehane, the first fitte is read!
Take note, my lady, that your way
Lies backward to the Chatelet!”
My prison-bars are thick and strong.
I take no heed of any weather,
The sweet Saints grant I live not long.
Pray but one prayer for me ‘twixt thy closed lips,
Think but one thought of me up in the stars.
