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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BEAUTIFUL HANDS, by INA LADD BROWN First Line: Oh, artist, if I should ask you Last Line: I always keep in my heart. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Hands; Memory; Paintings & Painters | |||
Oh, artist, if I should ask you To paint a picture for me Of a pair of beautiful hands, What, then, would your picture be? Two hands of ivory whiteness As soft as a baby's lips, With nails like glistening seed-pearls On velvety finger-tips? Tapering, slender and shapely, Worthy of jewelled bands; Palms like the petals of rosebuds -- Are these your beautiful hands? To me, my memory pictures A vision softened by tears; Hands not youthful and dainty But weary and worn with years. Hands that are rough from toiling, Calloused, and blemished and scarred, From sewing, washing and sweeping, -- Work that was long and hard. Yet with fingers tender and loving, Banishing care and fears, -- Smoothing pain from an aching head -- Wiping away our tears. Though your hands of fragile beauty Be praised by the world of art, Mother's hands are the beautiful ones I always keep in my heart. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...1801: AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE ENVOY TO CONSTANTINOPLE by RICHARD HOWARD VENETIAN INTERIOR, 1889 by RICHARD HOWARD THERE IS A GOLD LIGHT IN CERTAIN OLD PAINTINGS by DONALD JUSTICE DUTCH INTERIORS by JANE KENYON INVITATION TO A PAINTER: 3 by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM THE CHINA PAINTERS by TED KOOSER ELEGY FOR SOL LEWITT by ANN LAUTERBACH |
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