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THE NOBLE ANGUISH by WILLIAM WATSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: TO KEEP IN SIGHT PERFECTION, AND ADORE
Last Line: THAN KEEP HER LONG'D-FOR LOVELINESS IN SIGHT.
Subject(s): BEAUTY;

To keep in sight Perfection, and adore
Her beauty, is the artist's best delight;
His bitterest torture, that he can no more
Than keep her long'd-for loveliness in sight.



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