A Hand-Mirror Comments
HOLD it up sternly! See this it sends back! (Who is it? Is it you?)
Outside fair costume--within ashes and filth,
No more a flashing eye--no more a sonorous voice or springy step;
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Wonderful poem: Such, from one look in this looking-glass ere you go hence, Such a result so soon- and from such a beginning!
It should be read as magnificent poem, instead of mag magnificpoem.
A beautiful poem. Tons of imageries make my whole being of nothingness shiver with a craving for a celestial mirror that could fill me with a perfect introspection of the wholeness of the Universe around. For the first time in my life, I have come across such a beautiful, mag magnificpoem. Great work. Thanks.
well, so much for the golden years! I will remove all mirrors in my house immediately. Yet truth is applied here in layer upon layer so I think it best if we keep a physical or metaphorical mirror at hand at all times to keep an eye on who we are becoming.
Walt Whitman describes the human devolution, but at the same time, this process is reversible. The end of a civilization means the beginning of a new one. The last line seems to be relevant in this prophetic poem.
The hand mirror! ! Hold it up! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
This is brilliant! And I agree with it more and more as each year goes - Such a result so soon - and from such a beginning.
Wow! My first time reading this and quite a contrast to the Whitman I know. I wonder who the person was that Walt had in mind. It sounds like some Dorian Gray. -GK
It is mandatory to know about our self in the mirror of our mind find find find
The poet asks ourselves to look and understand what we are. good poem.
This reminds me of The Lumineers' line from Slow it Down: Smile less and dress up some more.
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Hand of truth and justice is the hand of life where the peaceful life reflects itself as the true conscience of humane