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DILEMMA IN THE DELTA by JOHN UPDIKE

Poet Analysis

First Line: OSIRIS PALES; THE PALACE WALLS
Last Line: EGYPTIAN THOUGH YOUR WICKED HEART IS, %I CAN'T RESIST A NOSE SO NOBLY ROMAN
Subject(s): CLEOPATRA, QUEEN OF EGYPT (69-30 B.C.); NOSES;

Poem Sources:

COLLECTED POEMS: 1953 - 1993.
  UPDIKE, JOHN
  (1995)
 



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