Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PHYLLIS, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poet's Biography First Line: O painter, match an english bloom Last Line: To make the lovely child more dear? Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Beauty | ||||||||
O PAINTER, match an English bloom, And give the head an English air, Then with great grey-blue stars illume That face pathetically fair. As though some sweet child, dowered at will With all the wisdom years could send, Looked up and, like a baby still, Became thine equal and thy friend; And kept the childly curves, and grew To woman's shape in wondrous wise, And with soft passion filled anew The sea-like sapphire of her eyes. Look on her, painter; is there aught Of well-beloved that is not here? Could chance or art be guessed or taught To make the lovely child more dear? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 14 by CONRAD AIKEN DIVINELY SUPERFLUOUS BEAUTY by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE BEAUTY OF THINGS by ROBINSON JEFFERS HOPE IS NOT FOR THE WISE by ROBINSON JEFFERS LIFE FROM THE LIFELESS by ROBINSON JEFFERS REARMAMENT by ROBINSON JEFFERS SHANE ONEILLS CAIRN by ROBINSON JEFFERS ON A GRAVE AT GRINDELWALD by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS |
|