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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 20, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poet's Biography
First Line: Even so our fancies' colours, keen of yore
Last Line: Nor shining nimbus of transfigured saint
Subject(s): Colors; Nature; Paintings And Painters
First Line: Even so our fancies' colours, keen of yore
Last Line: Nor shining nimbus of transfigured saint
Subject(s): Colors; Nature; Paintings And Painters
Even so our fancies' colours, keen of yore,
When one we love lays by this earth-constraint,
Upon our palettes do wax dull and faint,
Fulfilling not commissions first they bore.
For he is gone, and never holy lore
Nor shining nimbus of transfigured saint
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