Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON THE ENGRAVER OF HIS PORTRAIT, by JOHN MILTON



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First Line: Look on myself, and thou shalt own at once
Last Line: Laugh. Would ye think it? He intended me!
Subject(s): Portraits


Look on myself, and thou shalt own at once
This Copy of me taken by a Dunce;
My Friends, who gaze and guess not whom ye see,
Laugh. Would ye think it? He intended me!





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