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MAGDALEN, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD Poet's Biography First Line: If any woman of us all Last Line: Could we but also claim that deed! Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene | ||||||||
If any woman of us all, If any woman of the street, Before the Lord should pause and fall, And with her long hair wipe his feet; He, whom with yearning hearts we love, And fain would see with human eyes Around our living pathway move, And underneath our daily skies; The Maker of the heavens and earth, The Lord of life, the Lord of death, In whom the universe had birth But breathing of our breath one breath! - If any woman of the street Should kneel, and with the lifted mesh Of her long tresses wipe his feet, And with her kisses kiss their flesh, - How round that woman would we throng! How willingly would clasp her hands, Fresh from that touch divine, and long To gather up the twice-blest strands! How eagerly with her would change Our trivial innocence, nor heed Her shameful memories and strange, Could we but also claim that deed! | Other Poems of Interest...MARY MAGDALENE by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) AN ANNUAL OF THE DARK PHYSICS by NORMAN DUBIE MAGDALEN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON MAUDLIN; OR, THE MAGDALEN€™S TEARS by LINDA GREGERSON FOR THE MAGDALENE by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN MARY MAGDALENE by GEORGE HERBERT LENT by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS SONNETS ON PICTURES: MARY MAGDALEN AT THE DOOR OF SIMON THE PHARISEE by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI MARY MAGDALEN by BARTOLOME LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA |
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