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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL HESTER PRYNNE?, by KAREN SWENSON Poet's Biography First Line: Pity him up to his waist in middle age Last Line: "gabriel told me to." Subject(s): Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary | |||
Pity him up to his waist in middle age, neither celibate nor pervert in ceramics, only ultimate with a finger caught in the clay cookie jar. Leading under the slatted moonlight of palm trees, opening, shutting, like a nervous venetian blind - he said shyly, "Have you ever done this before?" She said, "No," curling her toes expectantly into the sand. God sighed relief through his gray beard. I don't know what happened to him. But she went home, a smug pendulum of skirts, to inform her husband, who had angelic nightmares ever after, "Gabriel told me to." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MADONNA by KATHARINE LEE BATES BALLADE TO OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA by HILAIRE BELLOC OUR LORD AND OUR LADY by HILAIRE BELLOC PLASTIC BEATITUDE by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A SONG OF MARY by LUCILLE CLIFTON ISLAND MARY by LUCILLE CLIFTON MARY'S DREAM by LUCILLE CLIFTON |
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