Glove of Black in White Hand Bare
A woman holds a black glove in her bare white hand, with a transparent veil wound about her forehead that leaves her hair visible. Her displayed cheek and neck and laughing eyes prompt the speaker to contrast her power to captivate living men with mourning for the dead.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Genre: Epigram · 90 words
First lines
Glove of black in white hand bare, / And about her forehead pale / Wound a thin, transparent veil, / That doth not conceal her hair; / Sovereign attitude and air, / Cheek and neck alike displayed / With coquettish charms arrayed, / Laughing eyes and fugitive; -- / This is killing men that live, / 'T is not mourning for the dead.
Genres
- Epigram — Ten rhymed lines describe a woman's appearance before a pointed closing contrast between captivating living men and mourning the dead.
Tags
flirtation · mourning · veils · appearance · epigram
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Epigram
- Length: 90 words
- Structure: 1 section, 1 paragraphs
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