Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DEATH OF A BEAUTIFUL GIRL, by VIRGINIA MOORE Poet's Biography First Line: She was a double gardenia Last Line: A dark brown odor. Alternate Author Name(s): Untermeyer, Louis, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dead, The | ||||||||
She was a double gardenia As red as thunder, With amorous air above her, And black loam, under. The Breaker-of-Stems wrenched rudely To incommode her, And now, instead of fragance, A dark brown odor. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND AN INVITATION by VIRGINIA MOORE |
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