And the wonderful description of Pompilia by Caponsacchi:
Her brow had not the right line, leaned too much,
Painters would say; they like the straight-up Greek:
This seemed bent somewhat with an invisible crown
Of martyr and saint, not such as art approves.
In _Eurydice_,
But give them me, the mouth, the eyes, the brow!
In _Count Gismond_,
Our elder boy has got the clear
Great brow.
In _The Statue and the Bust_,
On his steady brow and quiet mouth.
His ideally beautiful women generally have yellow hair. The lady
_In a Gondola_ had coiled hair, "a round smooth cord of gold." In
_Evelyn Hope_, the "hair's young gold:" in _Love Among the Ruins_,
"eager eyes and yellow hair:" in _A Toccata_,
Dear dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold
Used to hang and brush their bosoms?
And we must not forget his poem, _Gold Hair_. His descriptions of
women's faces are never conventional, rosy cheeks and bright eyes,
but always definite and specific.
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