Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ALLEGIANCE, by HILDEGARDE FLANNER



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ALLEGIANCE, by                    
First Line: I have not forgotten yet
Last Line: Skin that chokes like mignonette.
Subject(s): Love


I have not forgotten yet
Skin that chokes like mignonette,
I who drank myself to death
With the apples of your breath,
I who blasphemously went
Into your beauty's tenement,
I who eagerly confessed
Upon the altar of your breast.

I who falter in the snare
Of your canary-colored hair,
Sacredly could not forget
Skin that chokes like mignonette.





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