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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A STATUE IN A GARDEN, by AGNES LEE Poet's Biography
First Line: I was a goddess ere the marble found me
Last Line: The dead leaves are falling.
Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Statues
First Line: I was a goddess ere the marble found me
Last Line: The dead leaves are falling.
Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Statues
I was a goddess ere the marble found me.
Wind, wind, delay not!
Waft my spirit where the laurel crowned me!
Will the wind stay not?
Then tarry, tarry, listen, little swallow!
An old glory feeds me --
I lay upon the bosom of Apollo!
Not a bird heeds me.
For here the days are alien. O, to waken
Mine, mine, with calling!
But on my shoulders bare, like hopes forsaken,
The dead leaves are falling.
The sky is gray and full of unshed weeping
As dim down the garden
I wait and watch the early autumn sweeping.
The stalks fade and harden.
The souls of all the flowers afar have rallied.
The trees, gaunt, appalling,
Attest the gloom, and on my shoulders pallid
The dead leaves are falling.
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