“Frail the white rose and frail are
Her hands that gave”
James Joyce book Pomes Penyeach
A Flower Given To My Daughter, p. 11
Pomes Penyeach (1927)
“Alas!
We give our destiny from our own hands,
And trust to those most frail of all frail things,
The chances of humanity.”
A Summer Evening’s Tale
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
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Canto I, XIII
The Fate of Adelaide (1821)