Poem: “Double Being” by Natalie Clifford Barney

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American Literature – American Poetry – Natalie Clifford Barney – Poems from Natalie Clifford Barney
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Double Being

A northern mind, a face from Italy,
A double fate lived all too fatally,
A look fresh as a childs, both soft and sharp,
A clarion-voice, then liquid as a harp!
A natural being, yet from nature freed,
Like a Shakespearean boy of fairy breed—
A sex perplexed into attractive seeming—
Both sex at best, the strangeness so redeeming!—
Hands hard to loosen if for once they cling,
Yet frail as Leicester’s wearing a queen’s ring.
A page-clothed Rosalind to play a part,
A brow of genius and a lonely heart.

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American Literature – American Poetry –Natalie Clifford Barney – Poems from Natalie Clifford Barney

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