Any Bar

Category

Library Item

Item no

25035

Title

Any Bar

Artist / maker

Nicholson, William Newzam Prior

Date

1898

Size

23.0 x 24.0 cm

Type

Publisher's print

Location

Art and Design Library

ANY BAR

Though, if you ask her name, she says ELISE,
Being plain ELIZABETH. e'en let it pass,
And own that, if her aspirates take their ease
She ever makes a point, in washing glass,
Handling the engine, turning taps for tots,
And countering change, and scorning what men say,
Of posing as a dove among the pots,
Nor often gives her dignity away.
Her head's a work of art, and, if her eyes
Be tired and ignorant, she has a waist;
Cheaply the mode she shadows; and she tries
From penny novels to amend her taste;
And, having mopped the zinc for certain years,
And faced the gas, she fades and disappears.

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