Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PASTEL. HE light of our cigarettes Went and came in the gloom : It was dark in the little room. Dark, and then, in the dark, Sudden, a flash, a glow, And a hand and a ring I know. And then, through the dark, a flush Ruddy and vague, the grace— A rose—of her lyric face. HER EYES. BENEATH the heaven of her brows' Unclouded noon of peace, there lies A leafy heaven of hazel boughs In the seclusion of her eyes ; Her troubling eyes that cannot rest; And there's a little flame that dances (A firefly in a grassy nest) In the green circle of her glances ; A frolic Faun that must be hid, Shyly, in some fantastic shade, Where pity droops a tender lid On laughter of itself afraid. MORBIDEZZA. WHITE girl, your flesh is lilies Grown 'neath a frozen moon, So still is The rapture of your swoon Of whiteness, snow or lilies. The virginal revealtncnt, Your bosom's wavering slope, Concealment, 'Neath fainting heliotrope, Of whitest white's revealmcnt, Is like a bed of lilies, t A jealous-guarded row, Whose will is Simply chaste dreams :—but oh, The alluring scent of lilies! MAQUILLAGE. THE charm of rouge on fragile cheeks, Pearl-powder, and, about the eyes, The dark and lustrous Eastern dyes; The floating odour that bespeaks A scented boudoir and the doubtful night Of alcoves curtained close against the light. Gracilc and creamy white and rose, Complcxioned like the flower of dawn, Her fleeting colours are as those That, from an April sky withdrawn, Fade in a fragrant mist of tears away When weeping noon leads on the altered day. IMPRESSION. To M. C. THE pink and black of silk and lace, Flushed in the rosy-golden glow Of lamplight on her lifted face; Powder and wig, and pink and lace, And tho...