A Botticelli Madonna: II. The Mournful Mother

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Title:     A Botticelli Madonna: II. The Mournful Mother
Author: Ethel Allen Murphy [More Titles by Murphy]

O child of mine, my little Son, alas!
Beneath the sunlight of Thy gentle eyes,
Too soon, too soon, what fateful shadows rise,
Like night foretold in some sweet woodland glass?
On tender feet that scarcely bow the grass,
What stains are those of ripe pomegranate dyes?--
When on my breast Thy head in slumber lies,
What thorns are those that through my heart do pass?
And round about these crowds of haunting forms
That burn their splendor through my dimmest dreams!
O little Child, Thou Wonder too divine,
Thy precious body all my bosom warms
With mine own blood, but oftentimes it seems,
Too dearly loved,--that yet Thou art not mine.

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Ethel Allen Murphy's poem: Botticelli Madonna: II. The Mournful Mother

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