Living

The Re-echo Club: as by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Cubist Nude)

by Carolyn Wells 1862–1942

From The Re-echo Club

Living

The Blessed Nude at eve leaned out
From the gold staircase rail;
Her paint was deeper than the depth
Of waters in a pail.
She wore three bonnets on her heads,
And seven coats of mail.

And still she bowed herself and swayed
In circling cubic charms.
And the pigments of her painted soul
Were loud as war's alarms.
But the staircase lay as if asleep
Along her fourteen arms.

(I saw her move!) But soon her path
Was cubes instead of spheres;
And then she disappeared among
The staircase barriers;
And, after she was gone, I saw
She'd wept some large paint tears!

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A parody by Carolyn Wells, written in the manner of Dante Gabriel Rossetti as a contribution to the imagined Re-Echo Club (Cubist Nude).

MLA

Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Cubist Nude).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/312/.

Chicago

Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Cubist Nude).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/312/.

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