{"id":646,"date":"2010-09-18T16:21:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T16:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=646"},"modified":"2017-07-11T05:38:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T05:38:36","slug":"a-portrait-by-nathaniel-parker-willis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/a-portrait-by-nathaniel-parker-willis\/","title":{"rendered":"A PORTRAIT by Nathaniel Parker Willis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A PORTRAIT by Nathaniel Parker Willis<\/p>\n

She was not very beautiful, if it be beauty’s test
\nTo match a classic model when perfectly at rest;
\nAnd she did not look bewitchingly, if witchery it be,
\nTo have a forehead and a lip transparent as the sea.
\nThe fashion of her gracefulness was not a follow’d rule,
\nAnd her effervescent sprightliness was never learnt at school;
\nAnd her words were all peculiar, like the fairy’s who ‘spoke pearls;’
\nAnd her tone was ever sweetest midst the cadences of girls.
\nSaid I she was not beautiful? Her eyes upon your sight
\nBroke with the lambent purity of planetary light,
\nAnd an intellectual beauty, like a light within a vase,
\nTouched every line with glory of her animated face.
\nHer mind with sweets was laden, like a morning breath in June,
\nAnd her thoughts awoke in harmony, like dreamings of a tune,
\nAnd you heard her words like voices that o’er the waters creep,
\nOr like a serenader’s lute that mingles with your sleep.
\nShe had an earnest intellect?a perfect thirst of mind,
\nAnd a heart by elevated thoughts and poetry refin’d,
\nAnd she saw a subtle tint or shade with every careless look,
\nAnd the hidden links of nature were familiar as a book.
\nShe’s made of those rare elements that now and then appear,
\nAs if remov’d by accident unto a lesser sphere,
\nForever reaching up, and on, to life’s sublimer things,
\nAs if they had been used to track the universe with wings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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