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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BRIEF PORTRAIT, by MARGARET CUNNINGHAM
First Line: Gay as a garden are her newest summer dresses
Last Line: He cannot see her face as pain has traced it now.)
Subject(s): Memory
First Line: Gay as a garden are her newest summer dresses
Last Line: He cannot see her face as pain has traced it now.)
Subject(s): Memory
Gay as a garden are her newest summer dresses
And high-heeled fragile slippers line her closet floor;
(Tonight her heart will pass unnoticed for her fashion,
The flippant shoes will dance as lightly as before.)
But for a moment now she leans before her mirror,
And deftly sets in place a soft curl at her brow;
(So short a time has passed and yet if he remembers
He cannot see her face as pain has traced it now.)
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