Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LAST DITCH, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poet's Biography First Line: Love, through your varied views on art Last Line: That laurence housman's people wear! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Art & Artists; Clothing & Dress; Housman, Laurence (1865-1959); Love; Socialism | ||||||||
LOVE, through your varied views on Art Untiring have I followed you, Content to know I had your heart And was your Art-ideal, too. As, dear, I was when first we met. ('Twas at the time you worshipped Leighton, And were attempting to forget Your Foster and your Noel Paton.) "Love rhymes with Art," said your dear voice, And, at my crude, uncultured age, I could but blushingly rejoice That you had passed the Rubens stage. When Madox Brown and Morris swayed Your taste, did I not dress and look Like any Middle Ages maid In an illuminated book? I wore strange garments, without shame, Of formless form and toneless tones, I might have stepped out of the frame Of a Rossetti or Burne-Jones. I stole soft frills from Marcus Stone, My waist wore Herkomer's disguise, My slender purse was strained, I own, Butmy silk lay as Sargent's lies. And when you were abroadin Prague 'Mid Cherets I had shone, a star; Then for your sake I grew as vague As Mr. Whistler's ladies are. But now at last you sue in vain, For here a life's submission ends: Not even for you will I grow plain As Aubrey Beardsley's "lady friends." Here I renounce your handunless You find your Art-ideal elsewhere; I will not wear the kind of dress That Laurence Housman's people wear! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. CONCLUSION by EDWARD CARPENTER THE SOCIALIST AND THE SUFFRAGIST by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN THE NEW MILLENNIUM; A VISION IN THE STRAND by ANDREW LANG MICE by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY WHY I VOTED THE SOCIALIST TICKET by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY A LITTLE SONG ABOUT CHARITY by THOMAS MCGRATH A WARRANT FOR PABLO NERUDA by THOMAS MCGRATH BLUES FOR THE OLD REVOLUTIONARY WOMAN by THOMAS MCGRATH BLUES FOR WARREN by THOMAS MCGRATH A BALLAD OF CANTERBURY by EDITH BLAND NESBIT |
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