Whoops!Poet Places All Of His Poems in Wife's Coffin, Then Changes His Mind, 7 Years Later

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Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are. 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

February 10, 1862: Poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti's wife, Lizzie Siddal, died 152 years ago today. At her funeral the distraught husband lay the only manuscript of his poems to rest in his wife's coffin. Seven years later, he had her body exhumed and retrieved his work.

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