Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Flamma Vestalis and Other Poems
IN purple vestment, and in gathered hood, The Vestal Virgin passes down the street, With recollected thoughts, and covered feet, downcast eyes where folded memories brood. Love hath stirred her bosom, no man wooed, She walks on ways with holy tasks replete, With half-told beads, and symbolled rai ment meet, A handmaid vowed to Vesta, white and good.
Ah, Love, foreknown, compact of hope and dream, This painted ghost thy shadow as I deem.
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