Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BEAUTY THAT KNOWS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: What if my julia's happy eyes
Last Line: And double every charm!
Subject(s): Beauty


What if my Julia's happy eyes
Are filled with ever glad surprise
To see herself so fair?
Must she alone be dull and blind
To what is dear in human kind,
And glorious and rare?

Must she herself alone ignore
The loveliness that all adore
In eye and mouth and face?
Must she alone be witless quite
Of that incomparable sight,
That galaxy of grace?

And why should she not understand
The witchery of snowy hand,
The lure of dainty skin?
Or why should she not brightly know
The powers that with beauty go,
To satisfy and win?

I would not praise the stupid girl
Unconscious of her tiniest curl,
The bending of her arm;
Let these that such delight confer
Be also purest joy to her,
And double every charm!





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