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UNKNOWN FEMALE CORPSE
Headless, lacking foot and hand, Horrible I come to land. I beseech all women's sons Know I was a mother once.
RAPED AND REVENGED
One used and butchered me: another spied Me broken for which thing an hundred died. So it was learned among the heathen hosts How much a freeborn woman's favour costs.
SALONIKAN GRAVE
I have watched a thousand days
Push out and crawl into night
Slowly as tortoises.
Now I, too, follow these.
It is fever, and not the fight
Time, not battle that slays.
THE BRIDEGROOM
Call me not false, beloved,
If, from thy scarce-known breast
So little time removed, In other arms I rest.
For this more ancient bride Whom coldly I embrace
Was constant at my side
Before I saw thy face.