A PORTRAIT by Nathaniel Parker Willis
Published On Saturday, September 18, 2010. Under: 1800s, Willis, Nathaniel Parker.
A PORTRAIT by Nathaniel Parker Willis
She was not very beautiful, if it be beauty's test
To match a classic model when perfectly at rest;
And she did not look bewitchingly, if witchery it be,
To have a forehead and a lip transparent as the sea.
The fashion of her ...
