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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TWO LIVES. PART 2: 16, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poet's Biography
First Line: Her end is yonder, certain as the night
Last Line: A manhood tenfold mine in pride of place?
Subject(s): Psychology; Psychologists
First Line: Her end is yonder, certain as the night
Last Line: A manhood tenfold mine in pride of place?
Subject(s): Psychology; Psychologists
Her end is yonder, certain as the night
Above a staved ship with mortal list;
But do you mark, O wise psychologist,
Each cunning means? Each subtle pang and blight? --
Whereof but one had been enough to smite
The brain of woman in her bridal song,
Had it been bound with bands tenfold more strong
Than the doomed lady's in the House of White;
And yonder my collapse, sure as the abyss
Beneath the broken thigh, the bleeding nail
Of clinging mountaineer; but do you trace
Each ineluctable Antithesis? --
Whereof but one had hurled from off the trail
A manhood tenfold mine in pride of place?
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