Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LOVELY RETINUE, by LUCIA TRENT



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LOVELY RETINUE, by                    
First Line: The names of lovely women drift tonight
Last Line: Who croons within a humble cattle stall.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest
Subject(s): Women


The names of lovely women drift tonight
Like swans upon an ebony lagoon:
Cordelia, Iseult, tragical and white,
And Deirdre dreaming under Celtic moon,

The pale Ligeia, Dido and Lenore,
Ophelia singing with such bewildered breath,
Imperial Helen upon an alien shore
Plunging her warriors into early death,

Laura and Beatrice and Guinevere,
And yet I think the loveliest of all,
Mary the Mother, tenderly austere,
Who croons within a humble cattle stall.





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