Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO A CERTAIN POET, by LOTTIE BROWNING MURPHREE


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TO A CERTAIN POET, by                    
First Line: Praxiteles revealed art thou
Last Line: Of some grecian forest.
Subject(s): Donatello (1386-1466); Poetry & Poets; Praxiteles (370-330 B.c.); Sculpture & Sculptors


Praxiteles revealed art thou;
In time of satyr and dryad
Shouldst thou have lived.
Thy faun-like figure
Portends the pointed ear.
More of a mystery, thou,
If thy dark locks
Were long and curly,
A true Donatello.
One look in thine eyes
And thou are not seen
In thy present station,
But peeping through the leaves
Of some Grecian forest.





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