Poesy

Certain Artists Bring Her Dolls and Drawings

Bring where our Beauty liesA new modelled doll, or drawing,With a friend's or an enemy'sFeatures, or maybe showingHer features when a tressOf dull red hair was flowingOver some silken dressCut in the Turkish fashion,Or it may be like a boy's.We have given the world our passionWe have naught for death but toys.

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