“Down, wanton, down! Have you no shame
That at the whisper of Love’s name,
Or Beauty’s, presto! up you raise
Your angry head and stand at gaze?”
"Down, Wanton, Down!," lines 1-4, from Poems 1930-1933 (1933).
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