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Study in Hands



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Imperia

I saw a plaster hand, on view
In sculptorÂ’s studio, set apart...
AspasiaÂ’s? CleopatraÂ’s?... Who?
This fragmentÂ’s human work of art?

Like lily silvered by the dawn,
Frozen in kiss of snow, its light
Loveliness dazzled me, and shone
In poetry of purest white.

Though pallid, wan, yet striking, it
Spread over velvet, graceful, slender
Fingers—delicate, exquisite—
Decked thick with rings of weighty splendor....

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Poems by Théophile Gautier

The Blind Man



A blind man, on the thoroughfare,
Startle-eyed as an owl by day,
Piping a dismal little air,
Taps here and there, loses his way,

Tootles awry his time-old ditty
Undauntedly, as by his side
Lopes his dog, guides him through the city,
Specter diurnal, sleepy-eyed.

Days, stark, wash over him, unlit;
He hears the dark worldÂ’s constant din
And all that life unseen, as it
Rolls, rushing, like a flood walled in!...

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Poems by Théophile Gautier

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