The
Hudson
Review

A Magazine of Literature and the Arts

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Poetry

The Old Woman Regretting the Time of Her Youth, or Lament of the Beautiful Helmet Maker; Ballade: The Beautiful Helmet Maker to the Daughters of Joy by François Villon

by
Louis Simpson

To read this article, purchase the Summer 1998 issue.