Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, VISION OF A FAIR WOMAN, by ANONYMOUS


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VISION OF A FAIR WOMAN, by                    
First Line: Tell us some of the charms of the stars
Last Line: And her eyes like the radiance the sunbeams bring
Subject(s): Admiration


TELL us some of the charms of the stars:
Close and well set were her ivory teeth;
White as the canna upon the moor
Was her bosom the tartan bright beneath.
Her well-rounded forehead shone
Soft and fair as the mountain snow;
Her two breasts were heaving full;
To them did the hearts of heroes flow.
Her lips were ruddier than the rose;
Tender and tunefully sweet her tongue;
White as the foam adown her side
Her delicate fingers extended hung.
Smooth as the dusky down of the elk
Appeared her shady eyebrows to me:
Lovely her cheeks were, like berries red;
From every guile she was wholly free.
Her countenance looked like the gentle buds
Unfolding their beauty in early spring;
Her yellow locks like the gold-browed hills;
And her eyes like the radiance the sunbeams
bring.




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