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THE CROWS by LOUISE BOGAN

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE WOMAN WHO HAS GROWN OLD
Last Line: THE LITERARY REVIEW,
Subject(s): OLD AGE; WOMEN;
The woman who has grown old
And knows desire must die,
Yet turns to love again,
Hears the crows' cry.

She is a stem long hardened,
A weed that no scythe mows.
The heart's laughter will be to her
The crying of the crows,

Who slide in the air with the same voice
Over what yields not and what yields,
Alike in spring, or when there is only bitter
Winter burning in the fields.
@3The Literary Review@1,



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