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THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 10. PRELUDE. FELICITY by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE

Poet Analysis

First Line: TO MARRY HER AND TAKE HER HOME
Last Line: WITH HAPPY SKILL THAT THEY ARE WEAK.

To marry her and take her home!
The poet, painting pureness, tells
Of lilies; figures power by Rome;
And each thing shows by something else!
But through the songs of poets look,
And who so lucky to have found
In universal nature's book
A likeness for a life so crown'd!
Here they speak best who best express
Their inability to speak,
And none are strong, but who confess
With happy skill that they are weak.



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