dots-menu
×

Home  »  The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse  »  James Clarence Mangan (1803–1849)

Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

To Amine

James Clarence Mangan (1803–1849)

VEIL not thy mirror, sweet Amine,

Till night shall also veil each star!

Thou seest a twofold marvel there:

The only face so fair as thine,

The only eyes that, near or far,

Can gaze on thine without despair.