Jealousy
Lady, the laugh that rippled from your lips
Was such as Chloi might have laughed in Thrace —
A laugh as certain as a swallow dips,
As sure of grace.
Such notes as on a golden harp the wind
Might once have played (See Bulfinch, Æolus),
I turned to see your face. (You sat behind
Me on the bus).
Yours was the face that launched a thousand ships;
A thousand eyes like yours hath but the night;
Was Beauty's ensign crimson in your lips,
Your teeth were white.
But not the celebrated babbling spring
Bandusia boasted had a ripple half
So clearly sweet. I never heard a thing
Fair as your laugh.
Gazed I upon the rouser of your smile,
On him whose words provoked that lovely pearled
And lyric mirth. He was a dub, so I'll
Inform the world.
Dulness and smugness sat upon that bird;
And emptiness filled all his silly face;
Trite was his talk; his every uttered word
Was commonplace.
And as you listened to him verbify,
And laughed at him whose wheezes should have pained you,
What music you'd have made, I mused, if I
Had entertained you!
Lady, the laugh that rippled from your lips
Was such as Chloi might have laughed in Thrace —
A laugh as certain as a swallow dips,
As sure of grace.
Such notes as on a golden harp the wind
Might once have played (See Bulfinch, Æolus),
I turned to see your face. (You sat behind
Me on the bus).
Yours was the face that launched a thousand ships;
A thousand eyes like yours hath but the night;
Was Beauty's ensign crimson in your lips,
Your teeth were white.
But not the celebrated babbling spring
Bandusia boasted had a ripple half
So clearly sweet. I never heard a thing
Fair as your laugh.
Gazed I upon the rouser of your smile,
On him whose words provoked that lovely pearled
And lyric mirth. He was a dub, so I'll
Inform the world.
Dulness and smugness sat upon that bird;
And emptiness filled all his silly face;
Trite was his talk; his every uttered word
Was commonplace.
And as you listened to him verbify,
And laughed at him whose wheezes should have pained you,
What music you'd have made, I mused, if I
Had entertained you!
Was such as Chloi might have laughed in Thrace —
A laugh as certain as a swallow dips,
As sure of grace.
Such notes as on a golden harp the wind
Might once have played (See Bulfinch, Æolus),
I turned to see your face. (You sat behind
Me on the bus).
Yours was the face that launched a thousand ships;
A thousand eyes like yours hath but the night;
Was Beauty's ensign crimson in your lips,
Your teeth were white.
But not the celebrated babbling spring
Bandusia boasted had a ripple half
So clearly sweet. I never heard a thing
Fair as your laugh.
Gazed I upon the rouser of your smile,
On him whose words provoked that lovely pearled
And lyric mirth. He was a dub, so I'll
Inform the world.
Dulness and smugness sat upon that bird;
And emptiness filled all his silly face;
Trite was his talk; his every uttered word
Was commonplace.
And as you listened to him verbify,
And laughed at him whose wheezes should have pained you,
What music you'd have made, I mused, if I
Had entertained you!
Lady, the laugh that rippled from your lips
Was such as Chloi might have laughed in Thrace —
A laugh as certain as a swallow dips,
As sure of grace.
Such notes as on a golden harp the wind
Might once have played (See Bulfinch, Æolus),
I turned to see your face. (You sat behind
Me on the bus).
Yours was the face that launched a thousand ships;
A thousand eyes like yours hath but the night;
Was Beauty's ensign crimson in your lips,
Your teeth were white.
But not the celebrated babbling spring
Bandusia boasted had a ripple half
So clearly sweet. I never heard a thing
Fair as your laugh.
Gazed I upon the rouser of your smile,
On him whose words provoked that lovely pearled
And lyric mirth. He was a dub, so I'll
Inform the world.
Dulness and smugness sat upon that bird;
And emptiness filled all his silly face;
Trite was his talk; his every uttered word
Was commonplace.
And as you listened to him verbify,
And laughed at him whose wheezes should have pained you,
What music you'd have made, I mused, if I
Had entertained you!
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