He spoke, and placed the fallen flower
Against his heart—and so that hour
The maid and flower together.
THE ARTIST’S AIM.
In candor, my friend, you seem too much at home
With nymphs of Olympus and gods of old Rome.
The world has advanced, and the artist, if sage,
Will seek to give form to the thoughts of his age.
The curve of a limb and the pose of a head
May be all the same in the living as dead;