“To the much-tossed Ulysses, never done
With woman whether gowned as wife or whore,
Penelope and Circe seemed as one:
She like a whore made his lewd fancies run,
And wifely she a hero to him bore.”

"Ulysses" from Poems 1930-1933 (1933)
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English poet and novelist 1895–1985

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