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794 Hortense Flexner Hortense Flexner, who spent most of her life in Louisville, was a graduate of the University of Michigan and worked as a journalist early in her career. She wrote several competent plays and popular children’s books, and her collections of poetry —Clouds and Cobblestones (1920), The Stubborn Root (1930), and North Window (1943)—were reviewed favorably in several publications. She published numerous poems in national magazines, including the New Yorker. After her death in 1973 at the age of eighty-eight, several of her admirers published additional volumes of her poetry. Many of her poems, including the three below, were short, light poems with serious intent. h “Belief” In six gold weeks of summer The stripèd bee, Still eager for more roses, And sunny paths of clover sweetness, Dies, Believing that flowers are eternal. “Complaint” Creator—so we call Him and believe, Whose vast intention and accomplished feat Made life a theme, He had but to conceive And we have had forever to repeat. “Weary Phoenix” Amid the flames, self burned, the great bird dies, White embers wait his new birth as a nest, But if he said, “Perhaps I shall not rise, I think of sleep—perhaps the ash is best.” ...

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