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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Winged Victory

Hortense Flexner

YOUR flimsy dress,

Out of a bargain basement,

Reacts to the wind

As the living draperies

Of the Victory of Samothrace.

Your body also is proudly revealed,

Cleaving the air as hers.

And, verily, you would do as well

Without a head.