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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Look where she sits in languid loveliness
Last Line: The wind-flower, -----delicate and full of grace.
Subject(s): Beauty
First Line: Look where she sits in languid loveliness
Last Line: The wind-flower, -----delicate and full of grace.
Subject(s): Beauty
Look where she sits in languid loveliness,
Her feet upgathered, and her turbaned brow
Bent o'er her hand, her robe in ample flow
Disparted! Look in attitude and dress
She sits and seems an eastern sultaness!
And music is about her, and the glow
Of young fair faces, and sweet voices go
Forth at her call, and all about her press.
But no sultana she! As in a book
In that fine form and lovely brow we trace
Divinest purity, and the bright look
Of genius. Much is she in mind and face
Like the fair blossom of some woodland nook
The wind-flower, -----delicate and full of grace.
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