Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE MIRROR, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI


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First Line: She knew it not: - most perfect pain
Last Line: And must seek elsewhere for his own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Mirrors


SHE knew it not:--most perfect pain
To learn: this too she knew not. Strife
For me, calm hers, as from the first.
'T was but another bubble burst
Upon the curdling draught of life,--
My silent patience mine again.

As who, of forms that crowd unknown
Within a distant mirror's shade,
Deems such an one himself, and makes
Some sign; but when the image shakes
No whit, he finds his thought betray'd,
And must seek elsewhere for his own.





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