someone excellent with poetry-pls help me interpret this stunning poem? is he a liar?

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Miss, you walk as though you never bent nor gave
before a rush of talk or tears or rage,
but held your ground. If I were to behave,
I would commend this strength beyond our age,
and be on my way to the next blank page,
where I would say briefly that you’re lovely.
That I miss you so soon and can not gauge
your depth: that is courting, not courtesy.
So, were I right in my head and polite
I would not say that your eyes behind your
shaken plumed mane struck me. But they were bright:
wakeful, and they cut, so I will. Ask more;
I would say that I could come to love you
but manner chains this, or anything true.
 
This is the third time you've asked this question. I've already given you the right reply in the first question you asked about this same poem.

You asked if he's lying and the answer I gave you then is yes and no. What he is saying is he doesn't have the courage to be honest with her, to be honest about his true feelings. This is an indirect form of lying.

And this poem is not 'stunning.' It could become 'stunning' by re-writing some of the cliched phrases and including more original phrases.
 
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