Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CHIAROSCURO, by HAROLD WILLARD GLEASON


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First Line: Still-life she loves - bronze pears and mist-gray pewter
Last Line: Of hapless eyes whose fate is to adore her!
Subject(s): Love


Still-life she loves -- bronze pears and mist-gray pewter,
Slim green amphorae, books all bulk and binding,
In most admired disorder grouped to suit her,
Artistic joy in mass and contour finding;
The shadow of some bowl will so intrigue her
That she will scan it, rapt, for hours together,
Her bright head tilted -- while my wooing eager
Falls flat as banal comment on the weather!
Engrossed in cube and sphere, in colors burning
Like opalescent fancies drifting o'er her,
Her loveliness with new perspectives growing,
She lacks the Landseer quality -- of knowing
How light and shade best mingle in the yearning
Of hapless eyes whose fate is to adore her!





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