ABSTRACT
Rossetti's contribution was the poem Down Stream, illustrated by almost the only significant drawing published by the Dark Blue, a drawing by Ford Madox Brown of a man and a girl embracing in a boat, the girl's full, poetical yet homely face admirably observed in the innocent animalism with which it accepts love. The one other drawing worth looking at is Simeon Solomon's design for the poem by Swinburne, here entitled The End of the Month, but afterwards printed in the second series of Poems and Ballads as At a Month's End. It is stated in the Dictionary of National Biography that this magnificent poem, the finest of Swinburne's few poems of passion as distinguished from erotic fever, was inspired by Solomon's design; but the design is dated 1871, and the poem, the original manuscript of which author have examined, is almost certainly of earlier date.
