Unidentified photographer / artist
1853W.C. "Sonnet to a Daguerreotype"
Google Books"Editor's Table",
The Knickerbocker, or New York Monthly Magazine, Volume XLI, May 1, 1853, p.474.
So, 'without farther action,' please peruse this '
Sonnet to a Daguerreotype:'
'O Thou unspeaking idol: cold and stern
The look which meets the passionate gaze of mine;
No answering glances from those eyes of thine
Give kind assurance to me; no return
To all my fond caresses: and I yearn
Above thy mouth's dear outlines, for the bliss
That fills the soul when lips give back a kiss,
And hearts love-lighted near each other burn.
Unpitying eyes: can ye not helm the grief
That o'er my billowy brow so wildly drifts?
Unmoving lips: O
stir for my relief,
Loaded with sweetness like a hand with gifts;
Let not Despair my loneliness invade,
But rouse your dual forces to my aid.
Isn't that 'sweet' poetry? - - -
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