Phantom-Wooer: The Thomas Lovell Beddoes Web Site | Works

LIFE A GLASS WINDOW

Let him lean
Against his life, that glassy interval
‘Twixt us and nothing; and, upon the ground
Of his own slippery breath, draw hueless dreams,
And gaze on frost-work hopes. Uncourteous Death
Knuckles the pane, and—

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