Thin-legged, thin-chested, slight unspeakably, <br />Neat-footed and weak-fingered: in his face - <br />Lean, large-boned, curved of beak, and touched with race, <br />Bold-lipped, rich-tinted, mutable as the sea, <br />The brown eyes radiant with vivacity - <br />There shines a brilliant and romantic grace, <br />A spirit intense and rare, with trace on trace <br />Of passion and impudence and energy. <br />Valiant in velvet, light in ragged luck, <br />Most vain, most generous, sternly critical, <br />Buffoon and poet, lover and sensualist: <br />A deal of Ariel, just a streak of Puck, <br />Much Antony, of Hamlet most of all, <br />And something of the Shorter-Catechist.<br /><br />William Ernest Henley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/apparition-8/
