" One character in this poem imagines lying in the shadow of the "living mystic tree" before meeting "Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen, Margaret, and Rosalys," the five handmaidens of "the lady Mary."
This poem compares a woman's voice to "the voice the stars had when they sang together" after that woman sees "time like a pulse shake fierce through all the worlds." One character in this poem imagines lying in the shadow of the "living mystic tree" before meeting "Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen, Margaret, and Rosalys," the five handmaidens of "the lady Mary." In this poem's final stanza, the central character lays her face between her hands and weeps, causing the speaker, in parentheses, to respond "I heard her tears." Its main character stands on "the rampart of God's house" and holds "three lilies in her hand," and thinks of reuniting with her lover in the afterlife. This poem is named for a woman who "lean'd out from the gold bar of heaven." For 10 points, name this poem about a grieving angel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
This poem compares a woman's voice to "the voice the stars had when they sang together" after that woman sees "time like a pulse shake fierce through all the worlds.
"The Blessed Damozel"