How splendid and how vain in thee
The ancient quest, Italy!
Too strange that wreath, too strangely worn,
Apollo's laurel, Christ's red thorn!

(C) Margaret Steele Anderson
03/11/2020


Best Poems of Margaret Steele Anderson

• Song
• Lines Written To A Translator Of Greek Poetry.
• To A Fighter, Dead.
• The Breaking
• Work
• The Mystic
• The Angel And The Child
• On A Pompeiian Bust Called "sappho."
• Odes Of A Boy
• Donatello
• God, The Complement
• Madison Cawein
• From Sudden Death. . .
• A Stage-figure
• The Sin
• A Greek Lyrist Sings Of Apollo
• The Flame In The Wind
• The Madonna Of The Veil
• Spring.
• The Church