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Young Adventure, a Book of Poems
Contents:
Colors
(For D. M. C.)
The little man with the vague beard and guise
Pulled at the wicket. "Come inside!" he said,
"I’ll show you all we’ve got now — it was size
You wanted? — oh, dry colors! Well" — he led
To a dim alley lined with musty bins,
And pulled one fiercely. Violent and bold
A sudden tempest of mad, shrieking sins
Scarlet screamed out above the battered gold
Of tins and picture-frames. I held my breath.
He tugged another hard — and sapphire skies
Spread in vast quietude, serene as death,
O’er waves like crackled turquoise — and my eyes
Burnt with the blinding brilliance of calm sea!
"We’re selling that lot there out cheap!" said he.
Contents:
Chicago: Stephen Vincent Benet, "Colors," Young Adventure, a Book of Poems in Young Adventure, a Book of Poems Original Sources, accessed April 23, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3WIFGBSUPZ13QDZ.
MLA: Benet, Stephen Vincent. "Colors." Young Adventure, a Book of Poems, in Young Adventure, a Book of Poems, Original Sources. 23 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3WIFGBSUPZ13QDZ.
Harvard: Benet, SV, 'Colors' in Young Adventure, a Book of Poems. cited in , Young Adventure, a Book of Poems. Original Sources, retrieved 23 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3WIFGBSUPZ13QDZ.
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