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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GREEK SONNET, by JEAN RICHEPIN Poet's Biography
First Line: A great greek sculptor, was praxiteles
Last Line: And beauty dwells upon it evermore.
Subject(s): Praxiteles (370-330 B.c.); Sculpture & Sculptors; Sonnet (as Literary Form)
First Line: A great greek sculptor, was praxiteles
Last Line: And beauty dwells upon it evermore.
Subject(s): Praxiteles (370-330 B.c.); Sculpture & Sculptors; Sonnet (as Literary Form)
A great Greek sculptor, was Praxiteles.
Yet legend tells us that there was a day,
Wishing a cup unspelled with traceries,
His fancy found no form that it could sway.
When twilight brought the respite of soft ease
Upon a breast fair-moulded of love's clay,
At once he knew: this curve! this contour! these
Liquid lines! The live cup before him lay.
The woman whose bosom held such beauty pressed
Perfection took its form upon her breast—
This mortal goddess—who can tell her name?
No one. But through a sculptor's ardent flame
The cup has held for us the form she bore,
And beauty dwells upon it evermore.
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