. The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina; . sky of fleeting roseand tingling grey such as only dawn and dreamscan show us ; of the momentary sense of springin winter sunshine, the long sunsets long ago, andfalling fires on many distant hills. painting from 1862 to 1870. 1S5 At Kelmscott, too, he wrote two or three ex-quisite poems from nature as he said, one of themSunset IVbigs, in which is recorded the habit ofthe starlings there to sink ere they rest with day. Clamorous like mill-waters at wild playBy turns in every copse. Not in any respect a devotee of Nature he cannotfairly be called
. The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina; . sky of fleeting roseand tingling grey such as only dawn and dreamscan show us ; of the momentary sense of springin winter sunshine, the long sunsets long ago, andfalling fires on many distant hills. painting from 1862 to 1870. 1S5 At Kelmscott, too, he wrote two or three ex-quisite poems from nature as he said, one of themSunset IVbigs, in which is recorded the habit ofthe starlings there to sink ere they rest with day. Clamorous like mill-waters at wild playBy turns in every copse. Not in any respect a devotee of Nature he cannotfairly be called insensitive to her moods when theychanced within the range of his introspective his comment on Wordsworth will best sug-gest his own very different attitude : He thoughtWordsworth was too much the High Priest of Natureto be her lover, Mr. Caine reports, too much con-cerned to transfigure into poetry his pantheo-Christ-ian philosophy regarding Nature, to drop to his kneesin simple love of her to thank God that she CHAPTER CLOSING YEARS. THE two years spent by Rossetti at Kelmscottseem to have been passed under conditionsmost favourable to him. From the tone ofhis family letters one would conjecture a man busywith afdiirs that interested him and llnding a naturalrelaxation in simple amusements. He was paintingfrom Mrs. Morris and from Miss Wilding with muchsatisfaction in the results, considering the Prospcrhicand the Ghirlaudata each in turn about the bestthing he had done. He produced little poetry, buthis cordial review of Dr. Hakes Pji\iblcs j/icl Poemswas written at this time, and a new edition of theItalian translations was brought out under the title,Daiitc Jini His Circle. He had also an idea of trans-lating and editing the poems of Michelangelo and sentfor a number of books to aid him in the task. Myown impression, he said, is that Michelangelostands about alone as a good Italian poet after Danteetc., unless we except Poliziano. This
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