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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANCHERONTIA (A YOUNG PAINTER SPEAKS), by KATHARINE A. JENKINS
First Line: See, I have painted your portrait
Last Line: Beating your cruel wings upon my soul.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Portraits
First Line: See, I have painted your portrait
Last Line: Beating your cruel wings upon my soul.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Portraits
See, I have painted your portrait,
That is my revenge—
See, there you stand—
You, slim and white like a taper
In a sombre chapel of silence.
Your lips, red as blood
On the petals of a ghost flower—
Your eyes, green as a lichen upon a tomb—
Your hair, blacker than the Paris night
That' drops a cerement above the Seine—
You, Ancherontia, moth of death,
Beating your cruel wings upon my soul.
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