Portrait
Portrait
Original Text
Louise Bogan, Body of this Death: Poems (New York: Robert M. McBride, 1923): 14. PS 3503 O195 B66 1923 Robarts Library.
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.
Publication Start Year
1922
Publication Notes
Liberator 5.4 (April 1922): 27
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
RPO 2000.
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