Reading the title the reader understands that picture is associated to a witchcraft: it is unusual and the reader wonders how a painting can play a witchcraft on somebody; I think the title has to be considered on an allegorical level: it can also refer to an emotion that a person doesn't expect to feel.

The poem speaks about two lovers: he wants to leave, but she doesn't want to be abandoned and cries; the man expresses his feelings due to his lover's reactions: he look at her sight and realizes that his image is damaged; thus he feels guilty but he also believes she is killing him through negative images of him.

However he is going to leave her: he thinks all pictures will disappear and he won't suffer because of them.

The poem is organized into two stanzas. The first one concerns a present situation: it means that the man is stuck because of his woman's teares. The second stanza refers to a future situation: the men leaves the woman because he knows that she is going to kill him. Further more in the last three lines the poet provides a solution: he tries to comfort his loved saying that the image she will keep in her heart will be positive.

NEW WORDS

to drown=annegare

tear=lacrima

to espy=to spy

though=although

to pitty=provare pietà