Nor Look Behind

Harry Crosby 1898 (Boston) – 1929 (New York City)



Remember Lot's wife
How like a woman in a barren field
No stronger than a flower
Not born in shame
Like the deaf adder
Adding fuel to the flame
Of virtue
Of weak minds
Of blame
In naked beauty more
The most when unadorned
Spare not nor look behind
Nor fear
Nor spare
The scorned.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCDCDEFDGHIJKH
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 273
Words 57
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15

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