Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AT MADDAME MANICURE'S, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daintiest of manicures! Last Line: And light up and twinkle so! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Hands; Manicurists | ||||||||
DAINTIEST of Manicures! What a cunning hand is yours; And how awkward, rude and great Mine, as you manipulate! Wonderfully cool and calm Are the touches of your palm To my fingers, as they rest In their rosy, cozy nest, While your own, with deftest skill, Dance and caper as they will, -- Armed with instruments that seem Gathered from some fairy dream -- Tiny spears and simitars Such as pixy armorers Might have made for jocund fays To parade on holidays, And flash round in dewy dells, Lopping down the lily-bells; Or in tilting, o'er the leas, At the clumsy bumblebees, Splintering their stings, perchance, As the knights in old romance Snapped the spears of foes that fought In the jousts at Camelot! Smiling? Dainty Manicure? -- 'Twould delight me, but that you're Simply smiling, as I see, At my nails and not at me! Haply this is why they glow And light up and twinkle so! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LADY IN THE BARBERSHOP by RAPHAEL RUDNICK A BOY'S MOTHER by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY A LIFE-LESSON by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY A MAN BY THE NAME OF BOLUS by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY AN OLD SWEETHEART [OF MINE] by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY BEREAVED by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY HONEY DRIPPING FROM THE COMB by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY IKE WALTON'S PRAYER by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY |
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