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THE MIRROR by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: SHE KNEW IT NOT: - MOST PERFECT PAIN
Last Line: AND MUST SEEK ELSEWHERE FOR HIS OWN.
Subject(s): MIRRORS;
SHE knew it not:--most perfect pain
To learn: this too she knew not. Strife
For me, calm hers, as from the first.
'T was but another bubble burst
Upon the curdling draught of life,--
My silent patience mine again.

As who, of forms that crowd unknown
Within a distant mirror's shade,
Deems such an one himself, and makes
Some sign; but when the image shakes
No whit, he finds his thought betray'd,
And must seek elsewhere for his own.



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