Living

Lines on the Same Picture Being Removed

by Mary Lamb 1764–1847

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, IV: Poems and Plays, ed. E. V. Lucas

Living

Who art thou, fair one, who usurp'st the place
Of Blanch, the lady of the matchless grace?
Come, fair and pretty, tell to me,
Who, in thy life-time, thou might'st be.
Thou pretty art and fair,
But with the lady Blanch thou never must compare.
No need for Blanch her history to tell;
Whoever saw her face, they there did read it well.
But when I look on thee, I only know
There lived a pretty maid some hundred years ago.

MLA

Lamb, Mary. “Lines on the Same Picture Being Removed.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lamb_mary/4/.

Chicago

Lamb, Mary. “Lines on the Same Picture Being Removed.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lamb_mary/4/.

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