Read the poem: “Monna Lisa”

by James Russell Lowell

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American Literature – American Poetry – James Russell Lowell
< < < Midnight
My Love > > >

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Monna Lisa

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She gave me all that woman can,
Nor her soul’s nunnery forego,
A confidence that man to man
Without remorse can never show.

Rare art, that can the sense refine
Till not a pulse rebellious stirs,
And, since she never can be mine,
Makes it seem sweeter to be hers!

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< < < Midnight
My Love > > >

American Literature – American Poetry – James Russell Lowell

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