Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A BATTERED BEAUTY, by ANONYMOUS First Line: "hair, wax, rouge, honey, teeth, you buy" Last Line: No would it cost you more Subject(s): Cosmetics | ||||||||
HAIR, wax, rouge, honey, teeth you buy, A multifarious store! A mask at once would all supply, No would it cost you more. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO HIS MISTRESS by ABRAHAM COWLEY ART ABOVE NATURE: TO JULIA by ROBERT HERRICK EPICOENE; OR, THE SILENT WOMAN: FREEDOM IN DRESS by BEN JONSON NEGRO GIRL by IRENE COOPER ALLEN OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 8. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE FOURTH EPIGRAM by THOMAS CAMPION SIDNEY'S ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: CANTO SECUNDO. LOVE'S PILGRIMS by THOMAS CAMPION THE TOILETTE; A TOWN ECLOGUE by JOHN GAY TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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