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fixme2u asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 1 decade ago

Who Wrote this poem?

One face looks out from all his canvases,

One selfsame figure sits or walks or leans:

We found her hidden just behind those screens,

That mirror gave back all her loveliness.

A queen in opal or in ruby dress,

A nameless girl in freshest summer-greens,

A saint, an angel--every canvas means

The same one meaning, neither more nor less.

He feeds upon her face by day and night,

And she with true kind eyes looks back on him,

Fair as the moon and joyful as the light:

Not wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim;

Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;

Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Christina Rossetti

  • Annie
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    This is Christina Rossetti's poem "In An Artist's Studio." The poem has some indentations and you can see those indentations at the link I've provided below. There's also a painting and some sketches of the woman who inspired this poem, Elizabeth Siddal, who was the wife of the poet's brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Christina Rossetti is one of my favorite poets.

  • 1 decade ago

    Can' tell The style is rather slow

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