<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416494" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Discouraging Model</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just the airiest, fairiest slip of a thing,<br>With a Gainsborough hat, like a butterfly's wing,<br>Tilted up at one side with the jauntiest air,<br>And a knot of red roses sown in under there<br>Where the shadows are lost in her hair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then a cameo face, carven in on a ground<br>Of that shadowy hair where the roses are wound;<br>And the gleam of a smile, O as fair and as faint<br>And as sweet as the master of old used to paint<br>Round the lips of their favorite saint!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And that lace at her throat-- and fluttering hands<br>Snowing there, with a grace that no art understands,<br>The flakes of their touches-- first fluttering at<br>The bow-- then the roses-- the hair and then that<br>Little tilt of the Gainsborough hat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, what artist on earth with a model like this,<br>Holding not on his palette the tint of a kiss,<br>Nor a pigment to hint of the hue of her hair<br>Nor the gold of her smile-- O what artist could dare<br>To expect a result half so fair?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416494" data-title="A Discouraging Model de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="Just the airiest, fairiest slip of a thing, With a Gainsborough hat, like a butterfly's wing, Tilted up at one side with the jauntiest air, And a knot of red roses sown in under there Where the shadows are lost in her hair. Then a cameo face, car..."></div> </div> </div>

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