Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AGAIN I SEE HER FACE, by ETTA MAY VAN TASSEL


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AGAIN I SEE HER FACE, by                    
First Line: Again I see her face among the crowd
Last Line: In sudden sweetness on a stranger's face!
Subject(s): Faces; Women


Again I see her face among the crowd,
The titled nose, the gay and changing eyes,
And I am moved to call, to cry aloud
So great the likeness, painful my surprise.
It isn't she, nor yet her slender ghost,
No magic brings her, vital, from the dead;
But someone smiles within the hurrying host
And there is warmth I thought forever fled.

My heart is lightened, glad there should remain
Of such bright beauty some essential trace,
That thieving Death his treasure took in vain;
That all she was and all her special grace
Now lives and moves again, is mirrored plain
In sudden sweetness on a stranger's face!





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