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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHILD AND HER STATUE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your living glass is this unpolished stone Last Line: Imprisoned in the stone, will still be free. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Statues | |||
Your living glass is this unpolished stone That looks at you with unappraising eyes. Only the smile is different. It is wise As things inanimate are wise, from having grown In fire and ice ten thousand years alone. You will turn shrewd, change with the volatile skies, Cheapen yourself, snatch at the moment's prize . . . Knowing all this, its smile remains its own. Here where the light is almost leaping through, The bust is real as you will never be. You will grow harder than this marble, true To nothing long, not even your effigy; While all the impulsive radiance that was you, Imprisoned in the stone, will still be free. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BAMBERGER REITER by MARY KINZIE FRAGMENT OF THE HEAD OF A QUEEN by CATE MARVIN STATUE AND BIRDS by LOUISE BOGAN STATUES IN THE PARK by BILLY COLLINS STATUETTE: LATE MINOAN by CECIL DAY LEWIS THE STATUE OF A LIBERTINE by RON PADGETT A BIRTHDAY by LOUIS UNTERMEYER A VOICE FROM THE SWEAT-SHOPS (A HYMN WITH RESPONSES) by LOUIS UNTERMEYER |
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