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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BATH, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poet's Biography
First Line: With rosy palms against her bosom pressed
Last Line: Hot in the sand a gladiator dies.
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Rome, Italy; Showers & Showering
First Line: With rosy palms against her bosom pressed
Last Line: Hot in the sand a gladiator dies.
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Rome, Italy; Showers & Showering
WITH rosy palms against her bosom pressed
To stay the shudder that she dreads of old,
Lysidice glides down, till silver-cold
The water girdles half her glowing breast;
A yellow butterfly on flowery quest
Rifles the roses that her tresses hold:
A breeze comes wandering through the fold on fold
Of draperies curtaining her shrine of rest.
Soft beauty, like her kindred petals strewed
Along the crystal coolness, there she lies.
What vision gratifies those gentle eyes?
She dreams she stands where yesterday she stood,
Where, while the whole arena shrieks for blood,
Hot in the sand a gladiator dies.
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