Aspecta Medusa (For A Drawing)

Dante Gabriel RossettiDante Gabriel Rossetti

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Andromeda, by Perseus sav’d and wed,
Hanker’d each day to see the Gorgon’s head:
Till o’er a fount he held it, bade her lean,
And mirror’d in the wave was safely seen
That death she liv’d by.                                        Let not thine eyes know
Any forbidden thing itself, although
It once should save as well as ****: but be
Its shadow upon life enough for thee.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1828 - 1882/EnglishDante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. The son of émigré Italian scholar Gabriel Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti and his wife Frances Polidori, D.G. Rossetti was born in London, England and originally na…

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