Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SWANS AT WELLS, by LETITIA STOCKETT


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THE SWANS AT WELLS, by                    
First Line: With sidelong eye and regal throat
Last Line: Here beauty dwells with jeopardy.
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


With sidelong eye and regal throat
The swans imperially float
Upon the ancient palace moat.

Seven princes are they of romance,
Bewitched by some unhappy chance,
Beggared of their inheritance.

The gargoyles on the palace wall
Watch stony-lipped, satirical;
They stare, but never speak at all.

The primrose sky, the thinning tree
Distil a richer sorcery;
Here beauty dwells with jeopardy.





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