Elinor Morton Wylie (7 September 1885 – 16 December 1928 / Somerville, New Jersey)
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Poems by Elinor Morton Wylie : 5 / 53
Beauty
Say not of beauty she is good,
Or aught but beautiful,
Or sleek to doves' wings of the wood
Her wild wings of a gull.
Call her not wicked; that word's touch
Consumes her like a curse;
But love her not too much, too much,
For that is even worse.
O, she is neither good nor bad,
But innocent and wild!
Enshrine her and she dies, who had
The hard heart of a child.
Elinor Morton Wylie
Submitted: Friday, January 03, 2003
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Poems by Elinor Morton Wylie : 5 / 53
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