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Ophelia - Millais

Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood website

Pre Rapahelite hues galore!

Do we see the brushstrokes of Millais,

or for more, was it Dante Gabriel

Rosetti,

 

Who depicted an amber haired, ivory skin

Lass in dress of azure and Blood rose red;

Her lips blazon crimson against her

white alabaster pallor

(O shades of the Saint James’ Infirmary)

My personal Ophelia was not ‘clept so,

I’m reminded that this Chevy Chase aesthetic child,

 

Recalled a Robert Herrick verse so mild.

“Amas amo I love he so, as

Cedar tall and slender’-{merely a paraphrase}

And now they’ve even slain my gingko.

The muse who lifted my troubled adolescense

To glorious new plateaus of delusion

 

May live yet, but my further knowledge of her

Willowy laugh and dancing self

Has been put away on some far inaccessible

Cosmic shelf.

As they still mumble joyfully

in New Orleans, the land that Care has lef” behind,

The monkey, dear friends, has spoke his mind!

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