“She in left hand bears a leafy quince;
When with her right she crooks a finger, smiling,
How may the King hold back?
Royally then he barters life for love.”

"To Juan at the Winter Solstice" from Poems 1938-1945 (1946).
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English poet and novelist 1895–1985

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