“Beauty” by Elinor Wylie
Say not of Beauty she is good, Or aught but beautiful, Or sleek to doves’ wings of the wood Her wild wings of a gull. Call her not wicked; that word’s touch Consumes her like a curse; But love her not...
View ArticleIn The Neglected Garden, by Dawn Corrigan
Neglected Garden, by Caterina Tarallo Elizabeth Seton College, 1989 Here each statue lacks a nose, a finger, or even both, and in a hand’s dismantled hollow a spider weaves its growth. Farther in, amid...
View Article“A Garden Idyl” by George Meredith
The Fable of Arachne, by Diego Velázquez With sagest craft Arachne worked Her web, and at a corner lurked, Awaiting what should plump her soon, To case it in the death-cocoon. Sagaciously her home she...
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