Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LA GIOCONDA. LEONARDO DA VINCA. THE LOUVRE, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY


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LA GIOCONDA. LEONARDO DA VINCA. THE LOUVRE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Historic, side-long, implicating eyes
Last Line: For those vicissitudes by which men die
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper)
Subject(s): Mona Lisa




Historic, Sidelong, implicating eyes;
A smile of velve's lustre on the cheek;
Calm lips the smile leads upward:hand that lies
Glowing and soft, the patience in its rest
Of cruelty that waits and does not seek
For prey; a dusty forehead and breast
Where twilight touches ripeness amourously:
Behind her, crystal rocks, a sea and skies
Of evanescent blue on cloud and creek;
Landscape that shines suppressive of its zest
For those vicissitudes by which men die.






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