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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COLOR, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: A blue-black nubian plucking oranges
Last Line: In that old heaven where things are what they seem.
Subject(s): Beauty; Blacks
First Line: A blue-black nubian plucking oranges
Last Line: In that old heaven where things are what they seem.
Subject(s): Beauty; Blacks
A blue-black Nubian plucking oranges
At Jaffa by a sea of malachite
In red tarboosh, green sash, and flowing white
Burnous -- among the shadowy memories
That haunt me yet by these bleak Northern seas
He lives for ever in my eyes' delight,
Bizarre, superb in young immortal might --
A god of old barbaric mysteries.
Maybe he lived a life of lies and lust:
Maybe his bones are now but scattered dust:
Yet, for a moment he was life supreme
Exultant and unchallenged: and my rhyme
Would set him safely out of reach of time
In that old heaven where things are what they seem.
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