Living
On Dürer's Melencolia
From The Poems of William Watson (1893)
Living
What holds her fixed far eyes nor lets them range?
Not the strange sea, strange earth, or heav'n more strange;
But her own phantom dwarfing these great three,
More strange than all, more old than heav'n, earth, sea.
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Watson, William. “On Dürer's Melencolia.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/watson/107/.
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Watson, William. “On Dürer's Melencolia.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/watson/107/.
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