The Plaid gown

Strong sun, that bleach

The curtains of my room, can you not render

Colourless this gown I wear?–

This fierce plaid

Of purple angers as well as red shames; the yellow stripe

Of thin however valid treacheries; the fancy eco-friendly of kind deeds done

Through indolence high judgments provided right here in haste;

The recurring checker of the major breach of taste?

No much more uncoloured than unmade,

I fear, can be this garment that I may not doff;

Confession does not strip it off,

To send me homeward relieved as well as bare;

All with the formal, unoffending evening, under the clean

Bright hair,

Lining the subtle gown. . .it is not seen,

But it is there.

–Edna St. Vincent Millay

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