-Girl With a Pearl Earring-Johannes Vermeer c.1665
This is her picture as she was:
It seems a thing to wonder on,
As though mine image in the glass
Should tarry when myself am gone.
I gaze until she seems to stir,--
Until mine eyes almost aver
That now, even now, the sweet lips part
To breathe the words of the sweet heart:--
And yet the earth is over her.
from The Portrait,
by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
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