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A Dream Of Whitman Paraphrased Recognized And Made More Vivid By Renoir

by Delmore Schwartz

 Twenty-eight naked young women bathed by the shore
Or near the bank of a woodland lake
Twenty-eight girls and all of them comely
Worthy of Mack Sennett's camera and Florenz Ziegfield's
Foolish Follies.

They splashed and swam with the wondrous unconsciousness
Of their youth and beauty
In the full spontaneity and summer of the fieshes of
 awareness
Heightened, intensified and softened
By the soft and the silk of...Read more of this...

Form: Free verse

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A Dream Of Whitman Paraphrased Recognized And Made More Vivid By Renoir

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