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UPON THE SIGHT OF THE PORTRAIT OF A FEMALE FRIEND by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Poet Analysis

First Line: UPON THOSE LIPS, THOSE PLACID LIPS, I LOOK
Last Line: AND ASK NOT SPEECH FROM THEM, BUT LONG FOR BREATH.
Subject(s): PORTRAITS;
Upon those lips, those placid lips, I look
Nor grieve that they are still and mute as death;
I gaze -- I read as in an Angel's Book,
And ask not speech from them, but long for breath.



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