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LA GIOCONDA. LEONARDO DA VINCA. THE LOUVRE by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY

First Line: HISTORIC, SIDE-LONG, IMPLICATING EYES
Last Line: FOR THOSE VICISSITUDES BY WHICH MEN DIE
Subject(s): MONA LISA;



Historic, Sidelong, implicating eyes;
A smile of velve's lustre on the cheek;
Calm lips the smile leads upward:hand that lies
Glowing and soft, the patience in its rest
Of cruelty that waits and does not seek
For prey; a dusty forehead and breast
Where twilight touches ripeness amourously:
Behind her, crystal rocks, a sea and skies
Of evanescent blue on cloud and creek;
Landscape that shines suppressive of its zest
For those vicissitudes by which men die.




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