The Painter of Madonnas

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Excerpt from The Painter of Madonnas: And Other Poems The Painter of Madonnas You ask, my fair friend, why I choose to live A bachelor, and be content to give Mind, heart, and soul to painting, as I do, These pictures of a sex, it seems to you My life, if it speaks aught, rather condemns Than otherwise - these bits of fancy, too, You and the world are pleased to title gems Of art, why think with brush so loftily Of woman, yet abjure her whole society! I hold that sometime, somewhere, soon or late, 'Tis given to every man to meet his fate In some one woman's face, and I met mine. My years of youth I gave to waste and wine, To hawk, to horse, and hunt, the nothingness About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.