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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVELY LADIES, by MARY CASS CANFIELD Poet's Biography
First Line: Where do the lovely ladies go
Last Line: Seeking the comfort of a nurse.
Alternate Author Name(s): C.; Mulme, Mary Cass
Subject(s): Women
First Line: Where do the lovely ladies go
Last Line: Seeking the comfort of a nurse.
Alternate Author Name(s): C.; Mulme, Mary Cass
Subject(s): Women
Where do the lovely ladies go
That make the earth a bed of flowers?
Ladies, all frankincense and gold
Who weep at dawn over their powers.
Wanton, tender, idly cold,
Each dealing forth a cicatrice.
Sheba is still and, so we know,
Is Deirdre with her waste sorrows.
Nausicaa and Beatrice
Have plucked the last of their tomorrows.
Oblivious catacombs of mould
Are flying girls these Aprils miss.
Brief queens whose beauty is their foe,
Treading behind the winds that blow,
Whose loves from bad incline to worse --
When they have worked appointed woe,
They drive for air upon a hearse,
Seeking the comfort of a nurse.
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