It was an advertisement Appropriately bold ''" I cannot tell the maker. Nor where the stuff was sold; But in a glaring headline, With letters big and black. It promised to cure blushing, Or give the money back. Alas for maiden faces, All innocent and bright! Alas for maiden spirits, With childhood thoughts alight! Fareweli the glowing token Of purity and truth, And hail, cosmetic girlhood. And never-blushing youth! Bleach out the scarlet blossoms, Freeze hard the marble cheeks, And teach an equal simper If vice or virtue speaks; For blushes show unworldllness And hearts that still are pure, And there's a cure for blushing ''" But what con cure the cure? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CROWING OF THE RED COCK by EMMA LAZARUS OVERHEARD ON A SALTMARSH by HAROLD MONRO THE MAHOGANY TREE by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY THE COTTON BOLL by HENRY TIMROD AN APRIL MORNING by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH CARPE DIEM by JEAN ANTOINE DE BAIF VERSES TO A FRIEND by BERNARD BARTON THE BURGHERS OF CALAIS by EMILY A. BRADDOCK THINKING OF SAINTS AND OF PETRONIUS ARBITHE by MARY BUTTS (1890-1937) |