Gladstone was still respected, When John Ruskin produced "King's Treasuries"; Swinburne And Rossetti still abused. Fetid Buchanan lifted up his voice When that faun's head of hers Became a pastime for Painters and adulterers. The Burne-Jones cartons Have preserved her eyes; Still, at the Tate, they teach Cophetua to rhapsodize; Thin like brook water, With a vacant gaze. The English Rubaiyat was stillborn In those days. The thin, clear gaze, the same Still darts out faunlike from the half-ruined face, Questing and passive . . . "Ah, poor Jenny's case . . ." Bewildered that a world Shows no surprise At her last maquero's Adulteries. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: DAVIS MATLOCK by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE FLOWER BOAT by ROBERT FROST BENEDICTION by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON RETROSPECTION by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE DECISION (APRIL 14, 1861) by EDGAR LEE MASTERS A POEM FOR MAX NORDAU by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |