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Classic and Contemporary Poetry

APPEARANCES by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON

Poet Analysis

First Line: WELL, YOU HAVE LEARNED TO SMILE
Last Line: WHAT DREAMS YOU DREAMED LAST NIGHT?
Subject(s): FACADES; APPEARANCES;
WELL, you have learned to smile.
And no one looks for traces
Of tears about your eyes.
Your face is like most faces.
And who will ask, meanwhile,
If your face your heart belies?

Are you happy? You look so.
Well, I wish you what you seem.
Happy persons sleep so light!
In your sleep you never dream?
But who would care to know
What dreams you dreamed last night?



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