The Cambridge ladies who live in ...

Tulips and Chimneys (1923)

The Cambridge ladies who live in…

Ithe Cambridge ladies who live in furnished soulsare unbeautiful and have comfortable minds(also, with the church’s protestant blessingsdaughters, unscented shapeless spirited)they believe in Christ and Longfellow,both dead,are invariably interested in so many things-at the present writing one still findsdelighted fingers knitting for the is it Poles?perhaps.   While permanent faces coyly bandyscandal of Mrs. N and Professor D…the Cambridge ladies do not care,aboveCambridge if sometimes in its box ofsky lavender and cornerless, themoon rattles like a fragment of angry candy

from Tulips and Chimneys (1923)