Social Commentaries

Not Guilty

by Ambrose Bierce 1842–c. 1914

From Shapes of Clay (1903)

Social Commentaries

"I saw your charms in another's arms,"
Said a Grecian swain with his blood a-boil;
"And he kissed you fair as he held you there,
A willing bird in a serpent's coil!"

The maid looked up from the cinctured cup
Wherein she was crushing the berries red,
Pain and surprise in her honest eyes--
"It was only one o' those gods," she said.

MLA

Bierce, Ambrose. “Not Guilty.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/315/.

Chicago

Bierce, Ambrose. “Not Guilty.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/315/.

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