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ON HIS PORTRAIT (IN A LETTER TO HAYLEY) by WILLIAM COWPER

Poet Analysis

First Line: ABBOT IS PAINTING ME SO TRUE
Last Line: IF I WERE HERE OR THERE.
Subject(s): PAINTINGS & PAINTERS;
ABBOT is painting me so true
That (trust me) you would stare,
And hardly know at the first view,
If I were here or there.



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