Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS


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First Line: There is in her a vague, idyllic grace
Last Line: Float from lucrezia's altar down the aisles.


THERE is in her a vague, idyllic grace
Intangible as chimes adrift in wind,
A grace familiar with the chords that bind
Beauty to beauty with the centuries' pace,
Yet with the clouded hair about that face
Del Sarto might have painted, with the shadows
Massed in a background of dim, barren meadows,
She seems enthroned in a holy place.

But it is sad, sometimes, that she should speak
In words that you and I may understand,
For when such beauty here is close at hand
All else beside its mystery is weak.
And I would hear the music when she smiles
Float from Lucrezia's altar down the aisles.





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