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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHITE STATUE, by THIRZA J. MARTIN
First Line: Since first I gazed at your unshrinking form
Last Line: That I, like you, may be unfeeling too.
Subject(s): Statues
First Line: Since first I gazed at your unshrinking form
Last Line: That I, like you, may be unfeeling too.
Subject(s): Statues
Since first I gazed at your unshrinking form
So flawless there against the cypress shade
I think of your enduring loveliness,
And wonder: if I touched your lips with mine,
Could I then breathe the breath of living fire
Into that dead white heart and set it free?
Oh strange desire... have others longed as I
To see the rose come stinging to a cheek
So virgin pale, so cold to lover's plea?
The shadows lurking in your unbound hair
Alone are real, and yet I hear you call.
How often have I passed this way to see
You poised on slender feet that only wait
The magic of the fairy pipes at eve
To set them flying fast in ecstasy,
Two silver shuttles moving through the grass.
Oh long you wait, with spring-time in your eyes!
There on your breast her frail white blossoms sleep:
The palest flower of all, oh let me be,
As cold and perfect, close above your heart,
That I, like you, may be unfeeling too.
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