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"Hope"- Suffering

"Man Alone"- Eyes

*The motifs in both poems are bolded to make them easier to see.***

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"Hope"- "Grated den"
"Through the bars one dreary day"
"Stretched her wings, and soared to heaven,"

"Man Alone"- "Those eyes and that thick hair,
That passionate look, that laughter."

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"Hope"- The bars
"Man Alone"- Mirrors

***The Symbols in both poems are italicized to make them easier to see.***

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"Hope"- Hope, whose whisper would have given
Balm to all my frenzied pain,
Stretched her wings, and soared to heaven,
Went, and ne'er returned again!

"Man Alone"- Like walls the mirros stand

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"Hope"- "Hope, whose whisper would have given
Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

"Man Alone"-  "You should appear
Within the book, or doubled.

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It is yourself you seek

In a long rage,

Scanning through light and darkness

Mirrors, the page,

Where should reflected be

Those eyes and that thick hair,

That passionate look, that laughter.

You should appear

Within the book, or doubled,

Freed, in the silvered glass;

Into all other bodies

Yourself should pass.

The glass does not dissolve;

Like walls the mirrors stand;

The printed page gives back

Words by another hand.

And your infatuate eye

Meets not itself below;

Strangers lie in your arms

As I lie now.

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Hope Was but a timid friend;
She sat without the grated den,
Watching how my fate would tend,
Even as selfish-hearted men.

She was cruel in her fear;
Through the bars one dreary day,
I looked out to see her there,
And she turned her face away!

Like a false guard, false watch keeping,
Still, in strife, she whispered peace;
She would sing while I was weeping;
If I listened, she would cease.

False she was, and unrelenting;
When my last joys strewed the ground,
Even Sorrow saw, repenting,
Those sad relics scattered round;

Hope, whose whisper would have given
Balm to all my frenzied pain,
Stretched her wings, and soared to heaven,
Went, and ne'er returned again!