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Updated: July 23, 2025
Clemens's A Ken of Kipling. Young's Dictionary of the Characters and Scenes in the Stories and Poems of Rudyard Kipling. The Pre-Raphaelites. Read Rossetti's The Blessed Damozel, Sister Helen, The King's Tragedy, Love's Nocturne, and Mary's Girlhood. What part did Ruskin play in this new movement? Point out the simplest, the most affecting, and the most pleasing stanza in The Blessed Damozel.
Madge had now served the evening meal, put in her head to announce it, and Sibyll withdrew to summon her father. "I trust he will not tarry too long, for I am sharp set!" muttered Marmaduke. "What thinkest thou of the damozel?" "Marry," answered Alwyn, thoughtfully, "I pity and marvel at her. There is eno' in her to furnish forth twenty court beauties.
Then she saw herself in the cloisters lost in the beauty of "The blessed damozel," when he had appeared so unexpectedly. And finally she realized suddenly how much she loved the little worn volume and how she should always keep it to comfort and inspire her. "'Come back to me, Sweetheart," sang Judy teasingly, and Molly came back with a start, only just realizing that she had been day-dreaming.
Thus Modeste Mignon can be of service to you, and her gold will have the noblest of uses. As to your servant herself, you did see her once, at her window. Yes, "the fairest daughter of Eve the fair" was indeed your unknown damozel; but how little the Modeste of to-day resembles her of that long past era!
One of the peculiarities of The Blessed Damozel was a definiteness of sensible imagery, which seemed almost grotesque to some, and was strange, above all, in a theme so profoundly visionary.
This was a very strange poem, and made you feel like a stained-glass window; it was full of incense, but it was full of something else too. It began "The blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of heaven" ... and there was something in the voice that suggested such a height up above the world that you drew your breath lest she should fall over.
Rossetti soon mentioned, of course, his own schemes and ambitions, and he sent, as a sample of his powers, his poems of "The Blessed Damozel," and "My Sister's Sleep," which he had written about eighteen months before. Mr. Scott tells me that his first feeling on receiving these poems, written in English by an Italian boy of eighteen, was one of amazement. I cannot wonder at it.
This is my eldest daughter, Isabel; and this soft-eyed, pale-cheeked damozel too loyal for a leaf of the red rose is the Lady Anne." The two girls had started from their father's arms at the first address to Marmaduke, and their countenances had relapsed from their caressing and childlike expression into all the stately demureness with which they had been brought up to regard a stranger.
To Augustus fresh from very gilded gold, painted lilies and highly perfumed violets she seemed a vision of delight, a blessed damozel, a living Salvation. "Incedit dea aperta," he murmured to himself, and wondered whether he had got the quotation right.
He went on also with the picture of ‘The Blessed Damozel.’ For the head of an infant angel which appears in the front of this picture he made drawings from two children—one being the baby of the Rev. H. C. Hawtrey, and the other a workhouse infant.
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