Bare arms of girls

allen ives | 16:53 Thu 21st Mar 2002 | Arts & Literature

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There's a line from a poem which eulogises the warm, bare arms of girls, or some such. Can Inky, or anyone else, pinpoint the poem? I'm drawn towards Betjeman or Auden, but I can't find it anywhere. Thanks.

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Is it T.S. Eliot? From The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock? "And I have known the arms already, known them all' Arms that are braceleted and white and bare (But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!) Is it perfume from a dress That makes me so digress? Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl." That's the only one that comes to mind....

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Thanks for that, larabell, but I'm not sure. What is drifting around at the back of my mind is far more Betjeman-like, more Hunter-Dunn than Prufrock. Thanks for reminding me, though, of the Love Song. Allen.

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