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A CONTRAST by ALFRED TENNYSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: DOST ASK WHY LAURA'S SOUL IS RIVEN
Last Line: HER HAND WITHOUT HER HEART SHE GAVE.

DOST ask why Laura's soul is riven
By pangs her prudence can't command?
To one who heeds not she has giv'n
Her heart, alas! without her hand.

But Chloe claims our sympathy,
To wealth a martyr and a slave;
For when the knot she dar'd to tie,
Her hand without her heart she gave.





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