Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LINES TO A LOVELY LADY, by LILIAN C. B. MCA. MAYER


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LINES TO A LOVELY LADY, by                    
First Line: Now I have looked on beauty I concede
Last Line: She moves across the evening like a song.
Subject(s): Beauty


Now I have looked on Beauty I concede
That it is true; and more, that it is wise
And very tranquil, else I would not speak;
The dreamy mountain's memory would suffice,
The bright, bewildered beauty of the lake
When all the quivering water-nymphs awake.

When loosed imagination treads the hills
At noon, through green of endless galleries,
Above the shadowy slopes the clouds are still,
And her serenity I see in these.
Now little absences seem centuries,
For with inconstant summer I am gone;
But when the low sun strikes my Western wall
She moves across the evening like a song.





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