Category: Poetry

The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence

Taylor, Rachel Annand, 1876-1960· 2 chapters· 7,391 words

There are two great traditions of womanhood. One presents the Madonna brooding over the mystery of motherhood; the other, more confusedly, tells of the acolyte, the priestess, the clairvoyante of the unknown gods. This latter exists complete in herself, a personality as defini...

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1. Chapter 1

There are two great traditions of womanhood. One presents the Madonna brooding over the mystery of motherhood; the other, more confusedly, tells of the acolyte, the priestess, t...

2. Chapter 2

Ah! love me not with honey-sweet excesses, With passionate prodigalities of praise, With wreaths of daisied words and quaint caresses, Adore me not in charming childish ways. Th...