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Helen of Troy and Other Poems

By Sara Teasdale

2020-01-29 01:02:53

Wild flight on flight against the fading dawn The flames' red wings soar upward duskily. This is the funeral pyre and Troy is dead That sparkled so the day I saw it first, And darkened slowly after. I am she Who loves all beauty--yet I wither it. Why ... Read more
Wild flight on flight against the fading dawn The flames' red wings soar upward duskily. This is the funeral pyre and Troy is dead That sparkled so the day I saw it first, And darkened slowly after. I am she Who loves all beauty--yet I wither it. Why have the high gods made me wreak their wrath-- Forever since my maidenhood to sow Sorrow and blood about me? Lo, they keep Their bitter care above me even now. It was the gods who led me to this lair, That tho' the burning winds should make me weak, They should not snatch the life from out my lips. Less

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File size41.837 KB
Print pages58
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2012-01-01
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1449572761
Sara Teasdale (Aug 8, 1884 – Jan 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet. Teasdale's first poem was published in William Marion Reedy's Reedy's Mirror, a local newspaper, in 1907. Her first collection ...

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