Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO A PORTRAIT OF ISABEL FENWICK [PAINTED, MARAGARET GILLIES], by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH



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TO A PORTRAIT OF ISABEL FENWICK [PAINTED, MARAGARET GILLIES], by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: We gaze, nor grieve to think that we must die
Last Line: Whose flower with us will vanish, must survive.
Subject(s): Friendship; Paintings And Painters


WE gaze -- nor grieve to think that we must die,
But that the precious love this friend hath sown
Within our hearts, the love whose flower hath blown
Bright as if heaven were ever in its eye,
Will pass so soon from human memory;
And not by strangers to our blood alone,
But by our best descendants be unknown,
Unthought of -- this may surely claim a sigh.
Yet, blessed Art, we yield not to dejection;
Thou against Time so feelingly dost strive.
Where'er, preserved in this most true reflection,
An image of her soul is kept alive,
Some lingering fragrance of the pure affection,
Whose flower with us will vanish, must survive.






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