Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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A PICTURE.
—SONNET.
Lady! thou'rt very fair; such forms sweep byOn festal nights in gilded palace-halls,
With pearls and plumes—yet free from jewell'd thralls,
Or e'en the flowery chaplet's tenderer tie!—
Spreads streaming loose, like meteors in the sky,
That most illustrious hair, which richly falls
O'er thy white shoulders—lighting up these walls
E'en in its pictured semblance—dazzlingly!
Those flower-wreathed chaplets on that queenly brow
Should look as proud and glorious as a crown!
The jewelled crown upon its cloudless snow
Should gain a statelier grace, thus nobly shown!
But that illustrious hair's rich splendent flow
Than either, or than both, a fairer pride doth own!
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