Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, KNOWLEDGE, by CAMILLE MAUCLAIR


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First Line: Daughter mine, open the door
Last Line: By the trembling of my breasts.
Subject(s): Knowledge


Daughter mine, open the door;
There's some one calling there!
—That's nothing to disturb me for;
I'm smoothing my raven hair.

Open the door, O daughter mine,
Some one needs help in haste!
—I cannot, till I set this fine
Ribbon around my waist.

The door, O my daughter, open it now;
I am old, and move wearily. ...
—I will not go till I see how
This necklace looks on me.

Perhaps a dead man there alone
In the windy roadway rests!
—Had he been handsome, I'd have known
By the trembling of my breasts.





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