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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET, by MARIE LUHRS
First Line: Time, of all artists, draws most clear, most true;
Last Line: Quivered and cried -- there is no other way.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Time
First Line: Time, of all artists, draws most clear, most true;
Last Line: Quivered and cried -- there is no other way.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Time
Time, of all artists, draws most clear, most true;
He washes out the false and careless line;
What should be red he never kills with blue;
His pictures are not Ikons for a shrine.
He paints this unsung queen beloved and soft,
And that one hard for all her sonneteers;
Beneath his brush Caesar is drawn aloft
And little men are shadowed by their fears.
And when I am composed within Time's dream
I shall be drawn in shadow dark and blue;
I am no queen who lost a throne for you;
I am another leaf spun on a stream.
Still, queens in love were light leaves only. They
Quivered and cried -- there is no other way.
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