Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SMILING MOUTH, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS


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First Line: The smiling mouth and laughing eyen grey
Last Line: The breastes round and long small armes twain.
Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of
Subject(s): Beauty


The smiling mouth and laughing eyen gray,
The breastes round and long small armes twain,
The handes smooth, the sides straight and plain,
Your feetes lit -- what should I further say?
It is my craft when ye are far away
To muse thereon in stinting of my pain --
The smiling mouth and laughing eyen gray,
The breastes round and long small armes twain.
So would I pray you, if I durst or may,
The sight to see as I have seen,
Forwhy that craft me is most fain,
And will be to the hour in which I day --
The smiling mouth and laughing eyen gray,
The breastes round and long small armes twain.




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