FAIR friend, you tread to your imperial goal
The gallery of Shakespeare’s womanhood :
Love-lost Ophelia, Egypt’s varying mood,
Pure Isabella, the relentless soul
Of Cawdor’s consort, Desdemona’s dole,
Bright Beatrix, the witch of Arden Wood,
The dear, dead girl of Capel’s angry blood,
Belmont’s brave lady masked in Daniel’s stole.
Queen, though your beauty taught me first to know
That life was lovelier than the Melian stone,
I worshipped most the genius that could show
The stretch of thy proud art in every tone
Of exquisite passion, till I seemed to see
In that pale tragic face Melpomene !
(Justin H. McCarthy)
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