Monna Lisa

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Title:     Monna Lisa
Author: James Russell Lowell [More Titles by Lowell]

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!

[The end]
James Russell Lowell's poem: Monna Lisa

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