Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A 17TH CENTURY LOOKING-GLASS, by ELIZABETH WINSTON SHEEHAN First Line: Give up to us, o shadowed looking-glass Last Line: Listen, heart! Have we stood here before? Subject(s): Mirrors | ||||||||
Give up to us, O shadowed looking-glass, The pictures held deep in your memory. Through veils of gossamer let down by time, You seem withdrawn to some far distant past. Could we but lift them one by filmy one, What thrilling tales would stir our sluggish blood, What tender secrets throb alive again, What tragedies stalk out to chill the soul! So very old, perhaps you know the truth If beings come and go and come again. Do mirrored faces sunk unfathomably Beneath your Sphinx-like depth hold measured beats From age to age? Do soul notes, sounded once, Vibrate and sound anew the perfect key When old, old souls look out of youthful eyes? Listen, Heart! Have we stood here before? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FAT MAN IN THE MIRROR by ROBERT LOWELL THE CLOCK IN THE MIRROR by JOHN CIARDI EXPLICATION OF AN IMAGINARY TEXT by JAMES GALVIN SEEING FOR A MOMENT by DENISE LEVERTOV THE MIRROR IN THE WOODS by KENNETH REXROTH OPPOSITES: 38 by RICHARD WILBUR COMPASSION by ELIZABETH WINSTON SHEEHAN |
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