Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE CLOUD, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER


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First Line: A cloud the far horizon scales
Last Line: Over her satin shoulder slim.
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Clouds; Mythology; Mythology - Classical


A CLOUD the far horizon scales
And shapely on the sky-line sails,
As though a naked girl rose slowly
Out of a lake that no shadow veils

And upright in her shell of pearl
She sails the blue, this pallid girl,
Foam-frail, a later Aphrodite
Born of the foam in the air a-swirl.

Behold the supple shining limb,
And how she wavers in her whim,
And how Dawn scatters roses, roses
Over her satin shoulder slim.





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