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THREE WOMEN: FIAMMETTA by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR

First Line: HER SPEECH LIKE A TAME SERPENT HISS
Last Line: TO LIVE WHEN SHE DIES?
Subject(s): WOMEN;
HER speech like a tame serpent hisses;
She glows like a flower of the south;
The bruises of yesterday's kisses
Are purple to-day on her mouth.
Time bears from her beauty no plunder
Nor kindles a soul in her eyes;
And to-morrow -- what is there, I wonder,
To live when she dies?



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