November 2009
10 posts
THE PRINCESS
I., ll. 12-18: And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house. Myself too had weird seizures, Heaven knows what: On a sudden in the midst of men and day, And while I walked and talked as heretofore, I seemed to move among a world of ghosts, and feel myself the shadow of a dream.
Variant lines from the UCL MS: And truly I had glamourish...
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On K. W. 3d As I walk’d by my self And talk’d to my self, My self said unto me, Look to thy self, Take care of thy self, For nobody cares for Thee. I answer’d my self, And said to my self, In the self-same Repartee, Look to thy self Or not look to thy self, The self-same thing will be.
