What inspired this one, so different from the tone of Evelyn's other works?
Yes, I was hungry and you took me in.
But mine was not a hunger after bread.
You lavished on me luxuries of skin,
And powderings and jewels for my head.
You made me a very scented road of sin.
And, listless as a leaf that frost has bled,
We bumped along. Now my defiant boasts
Sneer paganly at idealistic ghosts.
Evelyn Coffey
What indeed inspired this one? While other poems suggest to me that Evelyn could imagine herself being ravished by nature or spirit or god or love, the pagan reference, and the sneering suggest to me that was based on a work of art, perhaps Leda and the Swan?
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