The Poetical Works of George Barlow In Ten [Eleven] Volumes |
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REPRESENTATIVE COLOURS
The sunlight glinting on a space of bright
Green grass within a wood; the blue-green leaves
Of the sea-poppy; the rich amber sheaves;
The sea—grey-blue, or brown, or angry white,
Or Southern blue against broad Southern light;
A woman's hair—blue-black, or golden-brown;
The sudden flash of jewels in a crown;
The depth of purple-black vast starless night;—
The subtle blending in a woman's eyes
Of green and brown; a soldier's scarlet coat;
A woman's white form,—nobly, fully, bare,
Save for the shadow of chin upon the throat
Shadeless; the red sun seen through fog-bound skies;
The carmine sea-weed that green waves' lips tear.
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