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Poems of Marianne Moore

by Marianne Moore

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You Are Like the Realistic Product of an Idealistic Search for Gold at the Foot of the Rainbow

Hid by the august foliage and fruit of the grape vine,
twine
  your anatomy
    round the pruned and polished stem,
      chameleon.
      Fire laid upon
    an emerald as long as
  the Dark King’s massy
one,
could not snap the spectrum up for food as you have done.

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