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Born in 1897 / Died in 1970 / United States / English

Poems by Louise Bogan

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Juan's Song

... When love, like a frail shell, lies broken, ...

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A Tale

... On beauty with a rusted mouth, -- Where something dreadful and another ...

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Epitaph For A Romantic Woman

... Others had lived, -- she heard their laughter ...

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Knowledge

... And treasure is brittle,--I'll lie here and learn ...

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Man Alone

... You should appearWithin the book, or doubled, ...

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Betrothed

... And your lips, closed over all that love cannot say,My mother remembers the agony of her womb ...

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Chanson Un Peu Naïve

... But she would not die, she vowed, ...

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Last Hill In A Vista

... Hills, where light poplars, the firm oak, ...

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Medusa

... My eyes on the yellow dust, that was lifting in the wind, ...

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Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom

... Heart, so subtle now, and trembling, ...

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Portrait

... What she has gathered, and what lost, ...

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Roman Fountain

... When full-gushed waters, alive, ...

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Song For The Last Act

... The wharves with their great ships and architraves ...

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Sonnet

... Yet will the desperate mind, maddened and proud, ...

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Tears In Sleep

... From the night giving off flames, and the dark renewing ...