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Nets to Catch the Wind
Elinor Wylie
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This is the first volume of Poems by American poet and novelist Elinor Wylie
This is the first volume of Poems by American poet and novelist Elinor Wylie
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It's better a leddie like Solomon's lily
Than one that'll run like a Hielan' gillie
A-linkin' it ower the leas, my laddie,
In a raggedy kilt an' a belted plaidie!
Why should this Negro insolently stride
Down the red noonday on such noiseless feet?
Piled in his barrow, tawnier than wheat,
Lie heaps of smoldering daisies, somber-eyed,
Their copper petals shriveled up with pride,
Hot with a superfluity of heat,
Like a great brazier borne along the street
By captive leopards, black and burning pied.
Are there no water-lilies, smooth as cream,
With long stems dripping crystal? Are there none
Like those white lilies, luminous and cool,
Plucked from some hemlock-darkened northern stream
By fair-haired swimmers, diving where the sun
Scarce warms the surfac. . . Read More
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Liked being able to read this again. Elinor Wylie was a minor poet from the last century. Velvet Shoes probably the most famous of her poems.