Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DORYPHA, by FREDERIC SAUSER


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First Line: On holidays / when the cowboys and indians get drunk
Last Line: With a flower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Guitars; Holidays; Women


Dorypha

On holidays
When the cowboys and Indians get drunk on pulque and whisky
Dorypha dances
To the tune of the Mexican guitar
Such entrancing habaneras
They come for leagues around to look at her.

No woman knows as well as she
How to drape her silk mantilla
How to adorn her golden hair
With a ribbon
With a comb
With a flower.





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