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First Line: Gladstone was still respected / when john ruskin produced
Last Line: Adulteries.
Subject(s): Buchanan, Robert William (1841-1901); Burne-jones, Edward Coley (1833-1898); Critics & Criticism; Dramatists; Novels & Novelists; Paintings & Painters; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Dramatists


Gladstone was still respected,
When John Ruskin produced
"King's Treasuries"; Swinburne
And Rossetti still abused.

Fetid Buchanan lifted up his voice
When that faun's head of hers
Became a pastime for
Painters and adulterers.

The Burne-Jones cartons
Have preserved her eyes;
Still, at the Tate, they teach
Cophetua to rhapsodize;

Thin like brook water,
With a vacant gaze.
The English Rubaiyat was stillborn
In those days.

The thin, clear gaze, the same
Still darts out faunlike from the half-ruined face,
Questing and passive . . .
"Ah, poor Jenny's case . . ."

Bewildered that a world
Shows no surprise
At her last maquero's
Adulteries.





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