Shoes that danced and other poems / Anna Hempstead Branch [electronic text]

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Branch, Anna Hempstead, 1875-1937

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company

1905

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"Shoes that danced and other poems / Anna Hempstead Branch [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD1937.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.

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KNOWLEDGE

 ONCE I thought that healing came From the angels' wings. Now the bruisèd hands of men Seem the kindest things.

 Once I thought to pluck and eat The fruit of Paradise. Now I break with these their bread With unsaddened eyes.

 Once I thought to find on earth Love, perfect and complete. Now I know it carries wounds In its hands and feet.