What beauty would have lovely styled, What manners pretty, nature mild, What wonder perfect, all were filed Upon record in this blessed child. And, till the coming of the soul To fetch the flesh, we keep the roll. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON THE ROAD TO CHORRERA by ARLO BATES TO S.M., A YOUNG AFRICAN PAINTER, ON SEEING HIS WORKS by PHILLIS WHEATLEY PASTEL by MARSDON GILFORD ALBRITTON TWELVE SONNETS: 5. GLAD SEASONS by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) INVOCATION by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE IN MEMORIAM A.M.W.; SEPTEMBER, 1910 (FOR A SOLEMN MUSIC) by GORDON BOTTOMLEY |