Gabrielle Maple: Quote for February 2, 2009

Thus in your field my seed of harvestry
Will thrive, for the fruit is like me that I set;
God bids me tend it with good husbandry;
This is the end for which we twain are met.

-- Gabrielle Maple

from: The Petrified Forest (1936)

Bette Davis acted as Gabriella Maple

Gabrielle Maple (Bette Davis) holds Alan Squire (Leslie Howard) as she recites a poem from Francois Villon translated into English by Algernon Charles Swinburne. To read this poem click here. To read a the whole book of poems that include this quote click here.

Categories: Gabrielle Maple, Bette Davis, The Petrified Forest