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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MIRROR, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: It glimmers like a wakeful lake in the dusk narrowing room
Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings
First Line: It glimmers like a wakeful lake in the dusk narrowing room
Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings
It glimmers like a wakeful lake in the dusk narrowing room.
Like drowning vague branches in its depth floats the gloom,
The night shall shudder at its face by gleams of pallid light
Whose hands build the broader day to break the husk of night.
No shade shall waver there when your shadowless soul shall pass,
The green shakes not the air when your spirit drinks the grass,
So in its plashless water falls, so dumbly lies therein
A fervid rose whose fragrance sweet lies hidden and shut within.
Only in these bruised words the glass dim-showing my spirit's face,
Only a little colour from a fire I could not race,
To glimmer through eternal days like an enchanted rose,
The potent dreamings of whose scent are wizard-locked beneath its glows.
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