Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FACADE: 11. THE OCTOGENARIAN, by EDITH SITWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The octogenarian Last Line: Vast moon azoic. | ||||||||
THE octogenarian Leaned from his window, To the valerian Growing below Said "My nightcap Is only the gap In the trembling thorn Where the mild unicorn With the little Infanta Danced the lavolta (Clapping hands: molto Lent' eleganta)." The man with the lanthorn Peers high and low; No more Than a snore As he walks to and fro. . . . Il Dottore the stoic Culls silver herb Beneath the superb Vast moon azoic. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BUCOLIC COMEDY: EARLY SPRING by EDITH SITWELL BUCOLIC COMEDY: FLEECING TIME by EDITH SITWELL BUCOLIC COMEDY: FOX TROT by EDITH SITWELL BUCOLIC COMEDY: KING COPHETUA AND THE BEGGAR MAID by EDITH SITWELL BUCOLIC COMEDY: SERENADE by EDITH SITWELL BUCOLIC COMEDY: SPINNING SONG by EDITH SITWELL BUCOLIC COMEDY: SPRING by EDITH SITWELL BUCOLIC COMEDY: THE BEAR by EDITH SITWELL BUCOLIC COMEDY: THE DOLL by EDITH SITWELL BUCOLIC COMEDY: THE FOX; FOR ANN PEARN by EDITH SITWELL BUCOLIC COMEDY: WHY by EDITH SITWELL ELEGY: THE GHOST WHOSE LIPS WERE WARM; FOR GEOFFREY GORER by EDITH SITWELL |
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