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CIRCUS LION by CECIL DAY LEWIS

Poet Analysis

First Line: LUMBERING HAUNCHES, PUSSYFOOT TREAD, A PRIDE OF %LIONS UNDER THE ARCS
Last Line: NOT ANGER ENOUGH LEFT - NO, NOR DESPAIR - %TO BREAK HIS TEETH ON THE BARS

Poem Sources:

MODERN POETRY.
  TOWNSEND, JOHN ROWE (ED.)
  (1974)
 



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