"Balk'd Dante Gabriel Rossetti: 'Actors all adored Arletty...'" Rossetti Libretti: A Constrained Nonsense Alphabet

  
Balk’d Dante Gabriel Rossetti:

"Actors all adored Arletty. 

Buddha bomb'd. Banned’s Bouncing Betty.

Bumm'd? You bet!" 

                                      -- Rossetti 



Squawk’d Dante Gabriel Rossetti:

"Calder color codes confetti.

Done to death's damn’d Donizetti.

Paid his debt..." 

                           -- Rossetti.



Blabb’d Dante Gabriel Rossetti:

"Each ‘n’ ev'ry etching’s Eddie.

‘Frickin’ fruit,’ foam’d Ferlinghetti.

‘C'est ma fete!’” * 

                             -- Rossetti



      * It's my party -- I'll decry if I want to.


Gabb’d Dante Gabriel Rossetti: 

"Getty's grabb’d my Giacometti. 

Hire some 'hound! hire Wainthropp, Hetty!

('T'swhat I get.)" 

                             -- Rossetti 


Ink’d Dante Gabriel Rossetti:

"Imre couldn't swim. Instead, he 

found Bea’s dinghy by the jetty.*

Game and set!" 

                            -- Rossetti



     * Lilly line from film classic “On Approval” 


Wink’d Dante Gabriel Rossetti:

"Singer Ketty, scribbler Letty,

thespi'n Freddie, pharaoh Seti:*

tetes-a-tetes!" 

                           -- Rossetti 



     * Lester, Cotton Pogrebin, Prinz, Jr. (sick!),

Menmaatre (sic) 


Mused Dante Gabriel Rossetti:

"Mis-matched: Mario Andretti's

mash notes (mese, trite, nete...)?*

Get the net!" 

                       -- Rossetti



     * Three pitch indicators from an antique

Greek musical system (as if you didn't know).



Schmoos’d Dante Gabriel Rossetti:

"Op-eds? On one's Olivetti? 

Paints a pretty paltry -- petty! --

picture, pet..." 

                         -- Rossetti 



Reel’d Dante Gabriel Rossetti:

"Quite the "ultimi quartetti": 

Ax, Bell, Chang, Ma! Are you ready?"* 

(Flag'olet? 

                     ...Rossetti*) 



     * Emanuel on piano, Bell and Chang

on first and second violins, Ma on 'cello...

     * ...and Dante Gabriel himself sitting in

on fipple flute. 


Spiel’d Dante Gabriel Rossetti:

" Saucers, stalled o'er Serengeti, 

seen by science sods from SETI,

pose no threat..." 

                              -- Rossetti 



Scrawl’d Dante Gabriel Rossetti:

"Spermaceti-spiked spaghetti!

Spilt sour sauce all down my teddy...

...need laundrette..." 

                                    -- Rossetti. 


Drawl’d Dante Gabriel Rossetti:

"After Uly'd up and 'e't, he'd 

vomit: veddy viral! Veddy! 

Phone the vet!" 

                           -- Rossetti 


Crack’d Dante Gabriel Rossetti: 

" Wraiths of a monastic Wetti* 

were, for sure, X-rated. Yet he

did not fret..." 

                         -- Rossetti 



     * Wetti's full story can be found

in the Wikipedia article "Visio Wettini."


Yak’d Dante Gabriel Rossetti:

"Yes, I've yearn’d to bag a Yeti 

eatin’ ziti (mispell'd 'zeti')."

(How all wet's

                            Rossetti...?!)