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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DROWNED, by MARJORIE MUIR WORTHINGTON First Line: Dead hair dripping from her head Last Line: Also dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Muir, Marjorie Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Dead, The | |||
Dead hair dripping from her head, As sea-weed drips over the side of a cliff. Dead hair, half-brown, half-gray, Coarse, uncombed, Thrown back from the uplifted head. Two eyes of brown, a greenish brown, Like stagnant water that shelters weeds and slimy things. ... Two eyes like holes in a shrivelled winter-leaf Whose edges are the bruised lids. ... Dead hair dripping from her head, And two dull eyes, Also dead. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND A NEW-ENGLAND TOWN-AT NOON by MARJORIE MUIR WORTHINGTON |
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