Living

The Re-echo Club: as by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Cubist Nude)

by Carolyn Wells 1862–1942

From The Re-echo Club

Living

The picture's done! And the staircase
Falls like the crash of night.
And the Nude is wafted downward
Like a catapult in flight.

There's a feeling of strange emotion
That is not akin to art;
And resembles a picture only
As a Tartar resembles a tart.

Such art has power to rouse
Our laughter at any time,
And comes like electrocution
That follows after crime.

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

MLA

Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Cubist Nude).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/320/.

Chicago

Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Cubist Nude).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/320/.

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