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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BELINDA, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK Poet's Biography First Line: Down the white gravelled path belinda goes Last Line: Hiding her subtleties beneath the rose, Subject(s): Tradition; Women | |||
Down the white gravelled path Belinda goes, Belinda who is part of all the ages, Yet not her bobbed hair nor her cheek's deep rose Can fool for long the dullest of old sages. Belinda loiters in her grandam's garden, Snipping a pansy or a sprig of box, She is its heritor, its valiant warden, Despite her vanished curls, her boyish locks. Belinda dreams along the gravelled path; The larkspurs are reflected in her eyes; She is tradition's sweetest aftermath, Her grandam came again but far more wise. Naively fresh as Eve Belinda goes, Hiding her subtleties beneath the rose, | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ARISTOTLE TO PHYLLIS by JOHN HOLLANDER A WOMAN'S DELUSION by SUSAN HOWE JULIA TUTWILER STATE PRISON FOR WOMEN by ANDREW HUDGINS THE WOMEN ON CYTHAERON by ROBINSON JEFFERS TOMORROW by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD LADIES FOR DINNER, SAIPAN by KENNETH KOCH GOODBYE TO TOLERANCE by DENISE LEVERTOV COMPANIONS by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK |
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