Friday, January 13, 2012

Epigram

Because I am idolatrous and have besought,
With grievous supplication and consuming prayer,
The admirable image that my dreams have wrought
Out of her swan's neck and her dark, abundant hair:
The jealous gods, who brook no worship but their own,
Turned my live idol marble, and her heart to stone.
   - Ernest Dowson    +1900

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