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An Angel in the House
From My Lyrical Life, First Series (1889)
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You have your Angel in the House! but look
On this, her likeness, mirrored in a book,
If but to learn how shadowy the Ideal
In presence of the living, loving Real.
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Codex Note
From the section "Poems for Christie" of My Lyrical Life, First Series (1889).
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Massey, Gerald. “An Angel in the House.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/massey/194/.
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Massey, Gerald. “An Angel in the House.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/massey/194/.
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