“My mother says I must not pass
Too near that glass;
She is afraid that I will see
A little witch that looks like me,
With a red mouth to whisper low
The very thing I should not know.”
The Witch in the Glass (1881).
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Part I, section xxii, stanza 10
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)

Source: Young Adventure (1918), The Quality of Courage

“Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look at you,
I sigh.”

“Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.”
Act 2, sc. 3
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

and she makes me see and feel things again. Nobody, not my father, not anybody, has done that for me, except movies.
As quoted in Denise Worrell (1989), Icons: Intimate Portraits.