<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419570" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>April Treason</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">So he took her as anointed <br>In the part he had appointed, <br>She was lips for smiling faintly, <br>Eyes to look and level quaintly, <br>Length of limb and splendors of the bust <br>Which he honored as he must. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Queen of women playing model, <br>Pure of brow but brain not idle, <br>Sitting in her silence meetly, <br>Let her adjective be stately; <br>So he thought his art would manage right <br>In the honest Northern light. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But he fashioned it too coldly, <br>April broke-and-entered boldly, <br>Thinking how to suit the season’s <br>Odor, savor, heats and treasons: <br>Painter! do not stoop and play the host <br>Lest the man come uppermost. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Yet he knew that he was altered <br>When the perfect woman faltered, <br>Languish in her softly speaking, <br>Anguish, even, in her looking: <br>All the art had fled his fingertips <br>So he bent and kissed her lips. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>He and Venus took their pleasure, <br>Then he turned upon his treasure, <br>Took and trampled it with loathing, <br>Flung it over cliffs to nothing; <br>Glittering in the sunlight while it fell <br>Like a lovely shattered shell. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Strict the silence that came onward <br>As they trod the foothill downward, <br>One more mocking noon of April, <br>Mischief always is in April; <br>Still she touched his fingers cold as ice <br>And recited, “It was nice.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Crowe+Ransom">John Crowe Ransom</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=419570" data-title="April Treason de John Crowe Ransom" data-description="So he took her as anointed In the part he had appointed, She was lips for smiling faintly, Eyes to look and level quaintly, Length of limb and splendors of the bust Which he honored as he must. Queen of women playing model, Pure of brow b..."></div> </div> </div>

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