Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO MISS -- ON HER SPENDING TOO MUCH TIME AT HER LOOKING GLASS, by MARY JULIA YOUNG


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TO MISS -- ON HER SPENDING TOO MUCH TIME AT HER LOOKING GLASS, by                    
First Line: While at the mirror, lovely maid
Last Line: Nor yet, with life expire.
Subject(s): Happiness; Mirrors; Vanity; Joy; Delight


While at the mirror, lovely maid
You trifle time away,
Reflect how soon your bloom will fade,
How soon your charms decay.

By nature form'd to please the eye,
All studied airs disdain,
From art, from affectation fly,
And fashions light and vain.

Turn from the glass and view your mind,
On that bestow your care,
Improve, correct it, till you find
No imperfections there.

Make it the seat of every grace,
Of charms that will encrease;
And give bright lustre to the face,
When youth and beauty cease.

Charms, that will gain a worthy heart,
And lasting love inspire,
That will thro' life true bliss impart,
Nor yet, with life expire.





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