Sasha24 Aug 2005

I don't think "rival ivies" has ever been used in a poem before, nor have "pallid jealousy" or "blessed blasphemy," how are they stylized? The grave accent is not as archaic as you might think. Witness:

Yeats: "an agèd man is but a paltry thing"

Alastair Reid (in translating a poem by Borges) "Blessèd are those who do not hunger for justice."

"Unchanging" I agree is redundant as is "graced"