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The Woman's Song to Enkidu single work   poetry   "There is a prison in your sigh"
  • Author:agent Thomas Shapcott http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/shapcott-thomas-w
Issue Details: First known date: 1965... 1965 The Woman's Song to Enkidu
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Epigraph: Gilgamesh instructed a harlot to lure Enkidu from his guardianship of the wild beasts of the desert. Once deprived of his innocence the animals rejected him; he returned and sat at the harlot's feet and she led him back to Gilgamesh. -- Babylonian legend.
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    y separately published work icon Poetry Australia no. 2 February 1965 Z605121 1965 periodical issue 1965 pg. 21
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