Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, I THINK DELILAH HAD A HEART, by GEORGE H. DILLON


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I THINK DELILAH HAD A HEART, by                    
First Line: I think delilah had a heart
Last Line: Heard the breathless shears snap.
Subject(s): Hearts; Pride; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect


I think Delilah had a heart
As warm as any woman could:
It was her pride that did the sort
Of thing a woman's pride would.

More slender than the high hound,
Paler than grapes, and honey-eyed
Was she; and she would rather wound
Her heart than needle-prick her pride.

Her lover could not hear her tread
As soft as that she trod in air:
She bound him well from heel to head
And bound his holy fierce hair.

(He could not see how her white breast
Arched high, nor her bronze hammered curls,
Nor her white chiseled thumb and wrist,
Who'd lain with many simpler girls.)

And when he cracked the cords apart
He won her love and her disdain:
Delilah had a hot heart --
But she was vain.

Delilah had a vanity
That hurt to hear a coin clink,
And all her pride whirred angrily,
And she forgot her heart. . . . I think

Delilah quivered to the charms
Of him whose shaggy eyes were blind
To her cold grace, whose strong arms
Crumbled the pillars of the wind --

Who snored contented at her thigh
As if in any trull's lap,
While she, complacent, proud and sly,
Heard the breathless shears snap.





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