English Poetry. Elizabeth Bishop. To Be Written on the Mirror in Whitewash. Элизабет Бишоп.

Elizabeth Bishop (Элизабет Бишоп)

To Be Written on the Mirror in Whitewash

I live only here, between your eyes and you, 
But I live in your world. What do I do? 
--Collect no interest--otherwise what I can; 
Above all I am not that staring man.

Elizabeth Bishop’s other poems:

1. At the Fishhouses
2. Roosters
3. Manners
4. Giant Snail
5. Squatter’s Children

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