This person is said to wear “a lilac kerchief” and have “the archest chin / Mockery ever ambush’d in” in a poem that repeats the line, “Quick, thy tablets, memory!” The speaker cries, “Stay with me, [this person], still!” at the end of the poem “Absence.” A poem addressed to this person, whom one author met during an 1848 stay in Thun, tells of the “conscious thrill of shame / Which Luna felt” while watching Endymion sleep, before claiming that “happier men” “have dreamed two human hearts might blend / in one.” A poem addressed to this person tells of a (*) “longing like despair” afflicting people who are brought to lament, “might our marges meet again!” This woman, the dedicatee of “Isolation,” titles a poem from Empedocles on Etna that declares in response to John Donne, “in the sea of life enisled… we mortal millions live alone.” For 10 points, a Matthew Arnold poem is titled “To [what woman]—Continued?” ■END■
ANSWER: Marguerite [accept “Isolation. To Marguerite” or “To Marguerite—Continued”; reject “Margaret”] (The first line refers to Arnold’s “A Memory-Picture.” The “lilac kerchief” may explain inconsistencies in Arnold’s descriptions of the color of Marguerite’s hair.)
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