I will not speak of the famous beauty of dead women: I will say the shape of a leaf lay once on your hair. Till the world ends and the eyes are out and the mouths broken, Look! It is there!
ATTRIBUTION:
Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982), U.S. poet. “Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments,” (l. 34–38). . .
Modern American & British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed., in consultation with Karl Shapiro and Richard Wilbur. (Rev., shorter ed., 1955) Harcourt, Brace and Company.
