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By Adelaide Crapsey Submitted by Misti Date: 2002 Aug 29 Comment on this Work [[2002.08.29.21.09.18759]] |
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When I was a girl by Nilus stream I watched the desert stars arise; My lover, he who dreamed the Sphinx, learned all his dreaming from my eyes. I bore in Greece a burning name, And I have been in Italy Madonna to a painter-lad, And mistress to a Medici. And have you heard (and I have heard) Of puzzled men with decorous mien Who judged- the wench knows far too much- And hanged her on the Salem green. |