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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN EGYPTIAN PULLED GLASS BOTTLE IN THE SHAPE OF A FISH, by MARIANNE MOORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Here we have thirst
Last Line: Whose scales turn aside the sun's sword by their polish.
Subject(s): Bottles; Fish & Fishing; Anglers
First Line: Here we have thirst
Last Line: Whose scales turn aside the sun's sword by their polish.
Subject(s): Bottles; Fish & Fishing; Anglers
Here we have thirst
and patience, from the first,
and art, as in a wave held up for us to see
in its essential perpendicularity;
not brittle but
intense -- the spectrum, that
spectacular and nimble animal the fish,
whose scales turn aside the sun's sword by their polish.
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