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POEM FOR PICTURE: TO A DRAWING OF A HORSE BY GEORGIO DI CHIRICO, by                    
First Line: Out of what stabled brain have you pranced
Last Line: Carrying me back to that lost age of beauty.
Subject(s): Animals; Chirico, Giorgio De (1888-1978); Horses; Paintings & Painters


Out of what stabled brain have you pranced,
Grecian horse? Were its floors
White marble and its roof all hammered gold,
Or was it all swirling mists,
Half ancient and half modern?
Were you meant to be a centaur?
Did you ever snort,
Throw your proud neck back,
And paw the ground with hoofs,
All shod with splendour
Near a man's shadow that answered
To the name of Homer?
Or perhaps you waved your flowing
Tail in unison with the quivering
Harp strings, that vibrated
To the deathless love songs
Of a young maiden called Sappho?
Let me leap on your broad back,
And feel your magnificent body under me,
Carrying me back to that lost age of beauty.





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