Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MONNA LISA, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL



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First Line: She gave me all that woman can
Last Line: Makes it seem sweeter to be hers!
Subject(s): Mona Lisa


SHE gave me all that woman can,
Nor her soul's nunnery forego,
A confidence that man to man
Without remorse can never show.

Rare art, that can the sense refine
Till not a pulse rebellious stirs,
And, since she never can be mine,
Makes it seem sweeter to be hers!





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