Hidden Poem

A collection of unseen and foreseen poem.

To Minnie 2:27 AM

(with a hand glass)

A PICTURE-FRAME for you to fill,
A paltry setting for your face,
A thing that has no worth until
You lend it something at your grace.

I send (unhappy I that sing
Laid by awhile upon the shelf)
Because I would not send a thing
Less charming than you are yourself.

And happier then I, alas!
(Dumb thing, I envy its delight)
T will wish you well, the looking glass,
And look you in the face to-night.

~Collected Works of Robert Louis Stenenson

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