James Shirley

Here you will find the Poem To a Lady Upon a Looking-Glass Sent of poet James Shirley

To a Lady Upon a Looking-Glass Sent

When this crystal shall present 
Your beauty to your eye, 
Think that lovely face was meant 
To dress another by. 
For not to make them proud, 
These glasses are allowed 
To those are fair, 
But to compare 
The inward beauty with the outward grace, 
And make them fair in soul as well as face.