"Such wistful eyes of baby blue/ He to her picture raises"

Jessie Macgregor (1847-1919)

1900

Pencil

Source: Macgregor

Christopher looks up at the portrait of Hester, who seems to caress him in his dreams and rebuke him when he does something naughty. It looks as if her "mild reproachful gaze" is bent on him here (stanza 6)

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