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Arts & Humanities: Poetry: “Question: Help finding a poem about beauty in imperfections?” plus 2 more

Arts & Humanities: Poetry: “Question: Help finding a poem about beauty in imperfections?” plus 2 more


Question: Help finding a poem about beauty in imperfections?

Posted: 24 Nov 2016 02:59 PM PST

Is it this one by Robert Herrick?

Delight in Disorder

A SWEET disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness:
A lawn about the shoulders thrown
Into a fine distraction:
An erring lace, which here and there
Enthrals the crimson stomacher:
A cuff neglectful, and thereby
Ribbands to flow confusedly:
A winning wave, deserving note,
In the tempestuous petticoat:
A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
I see a wild civility:
Do more bewitch me than when art
Is too precise in every part.

Question: Who is the persona in the poem of "africa s plea"?

Posted: 23 Nov 2016 08:55 PM PST

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