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Born in September 7, 1885 / Died in December 16, 1928 / United States / English

Poems by Elinor Wylie

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The Tortoise in Eternity

... Men's troubled dreams of death and birth ...

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Valentine

... A fruit no bee shall suck, ...

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Velvet Shoes

... We shall walk through the still town ...

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Venetian Interior

... Slides both white feet across the slanted beams ...

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Village Mystery

... And cloak blue-gray like a pigeon's wing, ...

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Wild Peaches

... We'll live among wild peach trees, miles from town, ...

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Winter Sleep

... It is sweet in their bones, O sweet, sweet, sweet! ...

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Epitaph

... Pain left her lips more clear than glass ...

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Little Elegy

... No bird have grace ...

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Full Moon

... Shouldering the thoughts I loathed, ...

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Speed the Parting—

... They survive in a glance that crossed them, ...

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The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart

... made, like a casket of goldFor my dreams of your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart ...