a few lines
January 2015
—
the supreme disciplines of
a tangle of vague outlines
planted thick with ugliness and
on the lines of the prevailing fashion
some liveliness of emotion
and loneliness of pride
to read between the lines was easier than to follow the text
six lines
a few lines
—
a few (most) lines from first volume, Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
at gutenberg.org
tags:
form; lines; prevailing modes; scribble; tangles
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881)