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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TOKEN, by FRANK TEMPLETON PRINCE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More beautiful than any gift you gave Last Line: At a sale of cupids. A hawk looks at them. Alternate Author Name(s): Prince, F. T. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Love | |||
More beautiful than any gift you gave You were, a child so beautiful as to seem To promise ruin what no child can have Or woman give. And so a Roman gem I choose to be your token: here a laurel Springs to its young height, hangs a broken limb. And here a group of women wanly quarrel At a sale of Cupids. A hawk looks at them. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD THE TEARS OF A MUSE IN AMERICA by FRANK TEMPLETON PRINCE |
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