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Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

By Poems. XI. Life Tapestry

Dora Greenwell (1821–1882)

TOO long have I, methought, with tearful eye

Pored o’er this tangled work of mine, and mused

Above each stitch awry, and thread confused;

Now will I think on what in years gone by

I heard of them that weave rare tapestry

At Royal looms, and how they constant use

To work on the rough side, and still peruse

The pictured pattern set above them high:

So will I set MY COPY high above,

And gaze and gaze till on my spirit grows

Its gracious impress: till some line of love

Transferred upon my canvas, faintly glows;

Nor look too much on warp or woof, provide

He whom I work for sees their fairer side.