Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EVEN THEN (FOR A TANAGRA FIGURINE), by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER


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EVEN THEN (FOR A TANAGRA FIGURINE), by                    
First Line: A wearied earth prescribes the stale despair
Last Line: "the sin of ""charming time""—""do come again""?"
Subject(s): Time; Weariness; Fatigue


A wearied earth prescribes the stale despair
Of your proud shoulders; centuries dictate
The folded scarf, the faultless high-reared hair—
How did it happen, pale sophisticate,
That the tamed flesh could mirror, even then,
The sin of "charming time"—"do come again"?





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