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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EARRINGS, by ELEANOR T. MACMILLAN
First Line: She wore twin jewels, each on a tiny chain
Last Line: I could pass by you calmly with a smile.
Subject(s): Earrings
First Line: She wore twin jewels, each on a tiny chain
Last Line: I could pass by you calmly with a smile.
Subject(s): Earrings
She wore twin jewels, each on a tiny chain.
Once perhaps the woman winced with pain
At the slow torture when the tender vein
Was deadened to insensibility;
But long, long after,
Distracting from inevitable senility, --
Since age craves to be young,
While youth fain would be old, --
She strung
Her tears onto a loop of gold,
And they hung
Against her flesh
Like crystal drops of laughter.
When love was torturing me so long ago,
It would have comforted my heart to know
That grief would numb desire, till after while
I could pass by you calmly with a smile.
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