<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506338" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Face</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If one could have that little head of hers<br>Painted upon a background of pure gold,<br>Such as the Tuscan's early art prefers!<br>No shade encroaching on the matchless mould<br>Of those two lips, which should be opening soft<br>In the pure profile; not as when she laughs,<br>For that spoils all: but rather as if aloft<br>Yon hyacinth, she loves so, leaned its staff's<br>Burden of honey-colored buds to kiss<br>And capture 'twixt the lips apart for this.<br>Then her little neck, three fingers might surround,<br>How it should waver on the pale gold ground<br>Up to the fruit-shaped, perfect chin it lifts!<br>I know, Correggio loves to mass, in rifts<br>Of heaven, his angel faces, orb on orb<br>Breaking its outline, burning shades absorb:<br>But these are only massed there, I should think,<br>Waiting to see some wonder momently<br>Grow out, stand full, fade slow against the sky<br>(That's the pale ground you'd see this sweet face by),<br>All heaven, meanwhile, condensed into one eye<br>Which fears to lose the wonder, should it wink.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Browning">Robert Browning</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=506338" data-title="A Face de Robert Browning" data-description="If one could have that little head of hers Painted upon a background of pure gold, Such as the Tuscan's early art prefers! No shade encroaching on the matchless mould Of those two lips, which should be opening soft In the pure profile; not as when..."></div> </div> </div>

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