"The Mirror"


The Mirror

I thought I saw Deception in thine eyes a-shine—
Was it but her reflection imaged deep from mine?

"The Mirror" as is appears in Ella Higginson's Four-Leaf Clover (1901).


"The Mirror" as it appears in Ella Higginson's The Voice of April-Land and Other Poems (1903).


A draft of "The Mirror" on onionskin paper, courtesy of the Ella Higginson Papers, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Heritage Resources, Western Washington University, Bellingham WA.







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