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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NEW ENGLAND PORTRAIT, by KATHRYN WORTH
First Line: She faces life across a willow plate
Last Line: Who rings herself with aureoles of race!
Subject(s): Family Life; New England; Relatives
First Line: She faces life across a willow plate
Last Line: Who rings herself with aureoles of race!
Subject(s): Family Life; New England; Relatives
She faces life across a willow plate
And makes her buckler of a Wedgwood jar.
How can you crush by any sort of fate
A soul that sits behind a samovar,
Drawing ancestry round it like a shawl?
She has to harbor paying guests at last
In the lilac-guarded house whose every wall
Tells of the twice three generations past.
Yet she can wear her service like a crown
And condescend with every silver spoon.
Sitting at tea, she will describe the gown
She wore for Grant one long-gone afternoon.
You cannot call her keeper of a boarding place
Who rings herself with aureoles of race!
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