ElinorWylie

= Elinor Wylie (Kassiah Potter)=
 * Elinor Wylie was born on September 7, 1885 in New Jersey to a wealthy family of seven. She was famous for her beauty and kind personality. Her poetry is often described as melodious and descriptive. She often wrote sonnets but did write strictly to that format. Today she is described as a metaphysical poet similar to John Donne, George Herbert and Andrew Marvell. Much of her work was published in Poetry Magazine in the 1920s, unfortunately her work was often over shadowed by her many affairs and marriage scandals. She married three times and had one child named Phillip Hichborn. Soon after she left her husband and son she published her first book, Nets to Catch the Wind following were Black Armor (1923) and Trivial Breathe (1928). She died in 1928 the same year she published her last book of poetry. **


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 * Wild Peaches **


 * When the world turns completely upside down **
 * You say we'll emigrate to the Eastern Shore **
 * Aboard a river-boat from Baltimore; **
 * We'll live among wild peach trees, miles from town, **
 * You'll wear a coonskin cap, and I a gown **
 * Homespun, dyed butternut's dark gold colour. **
 * Lost, like your lotus-eating ancestor, **
 * We'll swim in milk and honey till we drown. **


 * The winter will be short, the summer long, **
 * The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, **
 * Tasting of cider and of scuppernong; **
 * All seasons sweet, but autumn best of all. **
 * The squirrels in their silver fur will fall **
 * Like falling leaves, like fruit, before your shot. **


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 * Spring (My Poem) **


 * Winter; like an infant babe a’sleeping **
 * Snow Shields her light, calm as death is she **
 * Mother Summer; her warmth slowly creeping **
 * Time moving forward; the light coming free **
 * Our mother frees from icy slated claws **
 * Carrys back our ribbons of warm golden hew. **
 * To frozen lands. Come our mother’s heart thaws. **
 * Watch her eyes find our world, just as her cue; **
 * Her babe awakes, royal eyes dawn new times. **
 * Mother, her mind finds the dark icy crimes. **