Poems Ancient and Modern

Poems Ancient and Modern

Today’s Poem: Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare

The young Edna St. Vincent Millay seeks the Platonic form of beauty

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Dec 04, 2025
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Maarten van Heemskerck, Geometry, c. 1525 (Wikimedia Commons)
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