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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PERUGINO, by MARTHA HALE SHACKFORD
First Line: Oh happy painter! You who stayed
Last Line: And thus you painted life, content.
Subject(s): Perugino [pietro Vannucci] (1450-1523); Wellesley College
First Line: Oh happy painter! You who stayed
Last Line: And thus you painted life, content.
Subject(s): Perugino [pietro Vannucci] (1450-1523); Wellesley College
OH happy painter! you who stayed
In spirit ever undismayed;
Serene you saw those distant hills
Whose blue relief your canvas fills.
In softest green of early spring,
Your slender trees are blossoming
Beneath that light of other days,
So dear to you in Umbrian ways.
Alike, your saints and sinners wear
A sweet, detached, unworldly air;
Life gave you little to repent,
And thus you painted life, content.
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