Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE ARTIST, by AMY LOWELL


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First Line: Why do you subdue yourself in golds and purples?
Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Love


Why do you subdue yourself in golds and purples?
Why do you dim yourself with folded silks?
Do you not see that I can buy brocades in any draper's shop,
And that I am choked in the twilight of all these colors.
How pale you would be, and startling -
How quiet;
But your curves would spring upward
Like a clear jet of flung water,
You would quiver like a shot-up spray of water,
You would waver, and relapse, and tremble.
And I too should tremble,
Watching.

Murex-dyes and tinsel -
And yet I think I could bear your beauty unshaded.





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