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TO LUCASTA: HER RESERVED LOOKS by RICHARD LOVELACE

Poet Analysis

First Line: LUCASTA, FROWN AND LET ME DIE
Last Line: AN ANGEL HERE, THE DEVIL THERE.
Subject(s): INDIFFERENCE;

LUCASTA, frown and let me die,
But smile and see I live;
The sad indifference of your eye
Both kills and doth reprieve.
You hide our fate within its screen,
We feel our judgment ere we hear:
So in one picture I have seen
An angel here, the Devil there.



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