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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG OF THE SUMMER GIRL, by ANONYMOUS First Line: You talk about some maiden fair Last Line: The girl with summer tan! Subject(s): Household Employees;singing & Singers; Servants;domestics;maids | |||
YOU talk about some maiden fair, With alabaster brow, Her face like snowdrifts soft and rare As poets oft allow; Your parian, pentelic maid Admire her, ye who can; My choice is for a darker shade, The girl of healthy tan! The neck they liken to the swan, The goose has, quite as true; The maid with ivory forehead on May have a blockhead, too; But nut-brown damsels are the thing For me or any man; The summer girl's the one I sing, The girl with glowing tan! The snow-white pallor some admire Cold hands and feet foretell; The marble brows they so admire Mean marble hearts as well; Give me the warm, fresh blood that flows On nature's freest plan, The wholesome look, the eye that glows, The girl with summer tan! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IBIS; FOR LORI GOLDENSOHN by NORMAN DUBIE PLAINT OF THE POET IN AN IGNORANT AGE by CAROLYN KIZER LEDA'S HANDMAIDEN by ELEANOR WILNER THE HOUSEKEEPER by ROBERT FROST TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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