Arts & Sciences
The Virgin Carrying a Lantern
From Harmonium (1923)
Arts & Sciences
There are no bears among the roses,
Only a negress who supposes
Things false and wrong
About the lantern of the beauty
Who walks, there, as a farewell duty,
Walks long and long.
The pity that her pious egress
Should fill the vigil of a negress
With heat so strong!
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MLA
Stevens, Wallace. “The Virgin Carrying a Lantern.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevens/49/.
Chicago
Stevens, Wallace. “The Virgin Carrying a Lantern.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevens/49/.
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