In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. fear & smile
I am better able to imagine hell than heaven it is my inheritance, I suppose. imagination
Elinor Morton Wylie was an American poet and novelist popular in the 1920s and 1930s. "She was famous during her life almost as much for her ethereal beauty and personality as for her melodious, sensuous poetry."
In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. fear & smile
I am better able to imagine hell than heaven it is my inheritance, I suppose. imagination