Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ARTIFICIAL BEAUTY, by LUCIAN Poet's Biography First Line: You give your cheeks a rosy stain Last Line: Old hecuba young helen. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucianus Subject(s): Cosmetics; Vanity | ||||||||
You give your cheeks a rosy stain, With washes dye your hair, But paint and washes both are vain To give a youthful air. Those wrinkles mock your daily toil; No labor will efface them; You wear a mask of smoothest oil, Yet still with ease we trace them. An art so fruitless then forsake, Which though you much excel in, You never can contrive to make Old Hecuba young Helen. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THROUGH A GLASS EYE, LIGHTLY by CAROLYN KIZER EPITAPH: FOR A PREACHER by COUNTEE CULLEN THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT by ANNE BRADSTREET THE TENTH MUSE: THE VANITY OF ALL WORLDLY THINGS by ANNE BRADSTREET THE BISHOP ORDERS HIS TOMB AT SAINT PRAXED'S CHURCH by ROBERT BROWNING ALL IS VANITY, SAITH THE PREACHER' by GEORGE GORDON BYRON AGING: ON THE VANITY OF EARTHLY GREATNESS by ARTHUR GUITERMAN |
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