Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FADED PICTURES, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only two patient eyes to stare Last Line: A picture keeps its eyes, somehow. Subject(s): Photography & Photographers | ||||||||
ONLY two patient eyes to stare Out of the canvas. All the rest -- The warm green gown, the small hands pressed Light in the lap, the braided hair That must have made the sweet low brow So earnest, centuries ago, When some one saw it change and glow -- All faded! Just the eyes burn now. I dare say people pass and pass Before the blistered little frame, And dingy work without a name Stuck in behind its square of glass. But I, well, I left Raphael Just to come drink these eyes of hers, To think away the stains and blurs And make all new again and well. Only, for tears my head will bow, Because there on my heart's last wall, Scarce one tint left to tell it all, A picture keeps its eyes, somehow. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VISIT WITH AN OLD MODEL AT NORWOOD by SCOTT HIGHTOWER PHOTO OF A MAN ON SUNSET DRIVE: 1914, 2008 by RICHARD BLANCO ALL OF US BENEATH RED COWBOY HATS by ANDREW HUDGINS TO THE RETURNED GIRLS by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS UPON SEEING AN ULTRASOUND PHOTO OF AN UNBORN CHILD by THOMAS LUX FOUR POEMS ABOUT JAMAICA: 2. JAMAICANS POSING TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED by WILLIAM MATTHEWS PHOTO OF THE AUTHOR WITH A FAVORITE PIG by WILLIAM MATTHEWS AN ODE IN TIME OF HESITATION by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY GLOUCESTER MOORS by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY ON A SOLDIER FALLEN IN THE PHILIPPINES by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY |
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