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Louise Bogan (1897-1970)

Portrait


              1She has no need to fear the fall
              2Of harvest from the laddered reach
              3Of orchards, nor the tide gone ebbing
              4    From the steep beach.

              5Nor hold to pain's effrontery
              6Her body's bulwark, stern and savage,
              7Nor be a glass, where to forsee
              8    Another's ravage.

              9What she has gathered, and what lost,
            10She will not find to lose again.
            11She is possessed by time, who once
            12    Was loved by men.


Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
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Original text: Louise Bogan, Body of this Death: Poems (New York: Robert M. McBride, 1923): 14. PS 3503 O195 B66 1923 Robarts Library.
First publication date: April 1922
Publication date note: Liberator 5.4 (April 1922): 27
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 2000.
Recent editing: 2:2002/1/16

Rhyme: abcb


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