Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO MY CAMERA, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE


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TO MY CAMERA, by                    
First Line: You truthful, cynical old box
Last Line: A picture grew within my heart.
Subject(s): Photography & Photographers


YOU truthful, cynical old box,
You've nobly stood your share of knocks.
I know a dozen fellows
Who'd turn a brilliant envy-green
To see some things that you have seen
Within your dear old bellows.

No doubt you've winked your glassy eye
At my mistakes, and wondered why
I made such startling mixtures, --
A house, for instance, on a chair;
A vision posing in mid-air;
One film for two sweet pictures.

You furnished me the words, the guise,
To interest two hazel eyes
With work you did in Cairo.
That led to many a warm debate
On which is better for a plate, --
Eikonogen or Pyro.

You doubtless had a quiet laugh
When two went out to photograph,
And never once unstrapped you;
Or stood you up against a tree,
Amidst the rarest scenery,
And never once uncapped you.

At last you thought me mad, I'm sure,
To specialize in portraiture!
. . . . .
As science goes, you did your part;
But Love has done what you could not:
And clear, defined, without a spot,
A picture grew within my heart.





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