Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EVA, by NATHALIA CRANE First Line: Eva, the first of the fair ones Last Line: Making men see and believe. Subject(s): Daughters; Paintings & Painters | ||||||||
EVA, the first of the fair ones, Taught all her daughters to paint; Using indelible colors, Seeress and siren and saint. Banished them all to the brook brims, There in benign ambuscade, Taught them the art of portraying Beauty that never may fade. Voiced she the values of shadows Moored to the moss-mantled crags; Primed them to pose by the dwarf palms And mid the cat-tails and flags. Thus by each crevice and cavern, Thus in the lunettes and glades, There are depicted all damsels, Eva's most wonderful maids. Traceries tender and dimpled, Intricate art of design; Shadowy ideals of Eden, Even of Eva, divine. Breathe but a name in the bowers, Pour out her praise as a prayer; Forth from the fronds floats a presence, Vestured in loveliness rare. Thus, since the first of the fair ones, All of the daughters of Eve, Portray in permanent colors, Making men see and believe. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...1801: AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE ENVOY TO CONSTANTINOPLE by RICHARD HOWARD VENETIAN INTERIOR, 1889 by RICHARD HOWARD THERE IS A GOLD LIGHT IN CERTAIN OLD PAINTINGS by DONALD JUSTICE DUTCH INTERIORS by JANE KENYON INVITATION TO A PAINTER: 3 by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM THE CHINA PAINTERS by TED KOOSER ELEGY FOR SOL LEWITT by ANN LAUTERBACH ON THE SEPARATION OF ADAM AND EVE by TIMOTHY LIU |
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