The Little Room
I AM my Love's laboratory. For truly he shall find The proof of his high quality Within my heart and mind. Look down, my Love, my Dear, At the sure change wrought here!
Anna Wickham
I AM my Love's laboratory. For truly he shall find The proof of his high quality Within my heart and mind. Look down, my Love, my Dear, At the sure change wrought here!
The speaker declares that she is her lover’s “laboratory,” the place where his worth can be tested and proven. The change he has made in her heart and mind is, to her, clear evidence of his “high quality.” Love is pictured as a kind of experiment that has worked, and she is the visible result.
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