Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO THE AUTHOR'S PORTRAIT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH


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First Line: Go, faithful portrait! And where long hath knelt
Last Line: To life thou art, and, in thy truth, how dear!
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters


GO, faithful Portrait! and where long hath knelt
Margaret, the Saintly Foundress, take thy place;
And, if Time spare the colours for the grace
Which to the work surpassing skill hath dealt,
Thou, on thy rock reclined, though kingdoms melt
And states be torn up by the roots, wilt seem
To breathe in rural peace, to hear the stream,
And think and feel as once the Poet felt.
Whate'er thy fate, those features have not grown
Unrecognised through many a household tear
More prompt, more glad, to fall than drops of dew
By morning shed around a flower half-blown;
Tears of delight, that testified how true
To life thou art, and, in thy truth, how dear!





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