<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455759" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Other Side of a Mirror</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sat before my glass one day, <br>And conjured up a vision bare, <br>Unlike the aspects glad and gay, <br>That erst were found reflected there - <br>The vision of a woman, wild <br>With more than womanly despair. <br>Her hair stood back on either side <br>A face bereft of loveliness. <br>It had no envy now to hide <br>What once no man on earth could guess. <br>It formed the thorny aureole <br>Of hard, unsanctified distress. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her lips were open - not a sound <br>Came though the parted lines of red, <br>Whate'er it was, the hideous wound <br>In silence and secret bled. <br>No sigh relieved her speechless woe, <br>She had no voice to speak her dread. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in her lurid eyes there shone <br>The dying flame of life's desire, <br>Made mad because its hope was gone, <br>And kindled at the leaping fire <br>Of jealousy and fierce revenge, <br>And strength that could not change nor tire. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shade of a shadow in the glass, <br>O set the crystal surface free! <br>Pass - as the fairer visions pass - <br>Nor ever more return, to be <br>The ghost of a distracted hour, <br>That heard me whisper: - 'I am she!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+Elizabeth+Coleridge">Mary Elizabeth Coleridge</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455759" data-title="The Other Side of a Mirror de Mary Elizabeth Coleridge" data-description="I sat before my glass one day, And conjured up a vision bare, Unlike the aspects glad and gay, That erst were found reflected there - The vision of a woman, wild With more than womanly despair. Her hair stood back on either side A face bere..."></div> </div> </div>

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