The Day Dream, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

 

 DAY DREAM…

    in silence words be known, 

        in darkness light be cast

            in submission vision be held 

                time bears no beginning 

                    no end, it just IS ~ a calling 

                             in reverie moments be seized

                                                the Deliverance

                                                    the Revelations 

                                                        the Eternal 

                                                              the Ascension

                                                                the Manifest ...

                                                                        A telling, a beckoning... 

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."

 ~  Henry David Thoreau  ~

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

The Day Dream

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882

• Date: 1880

• Style: Romanticism

• Genre: genre painting

• Media: oil, canvas

• Location: Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London, UK

• Dimensions: 92.7 x 157.5 cm

Jane Morris, then married to William Morris, was romantically entangled with Dante Gabriel Rossetti who painted this portrait. The honeysuckle she holds was a symbol of love for the Victorians.  Rossetti wrote in 1880 that "[it] will be beyond question as good a thing as I ever did."