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Edith Wharton's Figurines

Suzanne Vega

Beauty & Crime

2007

Edith Wharton's lovely figurines 
Still speak to me today
From their mantelpiece in time 
Where they wrestle and they play
With passions and with

Edith wharton's lovely figurines
Still speak to me today
From their mantlepiece in time
Where they wrestle and they play

With passions and with

The Booklovers

The Divine Comedy

Promenade

1994

James: Howdy Miss Wharton!
Thomas Hardy: Ooo-arrr!
Joseph Conrad: I'm a bloody boring writer...
Katherine Mansfield: [cough cough]
Edith Wharton: Well

to be kind in their marking
Set Edith Wharton, Yeats and Pound
With copies of Mein Kamph hidden behind
They snort it up, it gives them a kick
But fuck

of my mouth
Reads like an Edith Wharton letter
But I can't seem to stop
Messing everything up
The cup's not half full or half empty
It's just a fucking

Edith Wharton knows
Where it's at
Sledging toward the Varnum's
And Count Olenska
Beat beat my heart
Like a baseball bat
Newland walks back
Alone