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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: SITWELL, EDITH Matches Found: 162 Sitwell, Edith Poet's Biography 162 poems available by this author AN OLD WOMAN: 1 Poem Text First Line: I, an old woman in the light of the sun Last Line: Forgive and bless all men like the holy light. Subject(s): Life; Old Age AN OLD WOMAN: 2. HARVEST Poem Text First Line: I, an old woman whose heart is like the sun Last Line: "sign from the dead." Subject(s): Old Age AT THE FAIR Poem Text First Line: Green wooden leaves clap light away, Subject(s): Country Fairs BELLS OF GREY CRYSTAL First Line: Bells of grey crystal Last Line: Sleek through the sky BUCOLIC COMEDY: AUBADE Poem Text First Line: Jane, jane / tall as a crane Last Line: The morning light creaks down again! Subject(s): Morning; Poetry & Poets BUCOLIC COMEDY: CACOPHONY FOR CLARINET Poem Text First Line: Said the dairymaid Last Line: To play with her endless vacancy of mind! Subject(s): Farm Life BUCOLIC COMEDY: CLOWN ARGHEB'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Clown argheb the honey-bee Last Line: But the pink freezing stars! Subject(s): Bees BUCOLIC COMEDY: COUNTRY COUSIN: VARIATION 1 Poem Text First Line: In summer when the rose-bushes Last Line: But oh, the treasure heaven gains. Subject(s): Hens; Death – Animals BUCOLIC COMEDY: COUNTRY COUSIN: VARIATION 2 Poem Text First Line: In summer when the rose-bushes Last Line: The gardener ties in childish posies. Subject(s): Country Life BUCOLIC COMEDY: COUNTRY COUSIN: VARIATION 3 Poem Text First Line: The clouds are bunched roses Last Line: On a budding branch heard. Subject(s): Roses BUCOLIC COMEDY: COUNTRY DANCE Poem Text First Line: That hobnailed goblin, the bobtailed hob Last Line: Come away! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers BUCOLIC COMEDY: EARLY SPRING Poem Text First Line: The wooden chalets of the cloud Last Line: Beginnings of first earthy things! Subject(s): Spring BUCOLIC COMEDY: EN FAMILLE Poem Text First Line: In early spring-time, after their tea Last Line: "as greenwich, or as bath, or joppa!" Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives BUCOLIC COMEDY: EVENING Poem Text First Line: Prince absolam and sir rotherham redde Last Line: Instead of the cherries ruddy and cold. Subject(s): Gold BUCOLIC COMEDY: FANTOCHES Poem Text First Line: The stars were like prunes Last Line: "the saturnine asinine bray of the seas!" BUCOLIC COMEDY: FLEECING TIME Poem Text First Line: Queen venus, like a bunch of roses Last Line: "cried ""come and be fleeced -- each sheepish fool!" Subject(s): Fleecing BUCOLIC COMEDY: FOX TROT Poem Text First Line: Old / sir / faulk, / tall as a stork Last Line: Lest the flood -- the flood -- the flood begin again through these! Subject(s): Mary Ii, Queen Of England (1662-1694); William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702) BUCOLIC COMEDY: GARDENER JANUS CATCHES A NAIAD Poem Text First Line: Baskets of ripe fruit in air Last Line: Quick as these. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening BUCOLIC COMEDY: GREEN GEESE Poem Text First Line: The trees were hissing like green geese Last Line: "sighed those green geese, ""now the queen is dead." Subject(s): Trees BUCOLIC COMEDY: KING COPHETUA AND THE BEGGAR MAID Poem Text First Line: The five-pointed crude pink tinsel star Last Line: "that shall drop down their dew on her sleeping eyes." Subject(s): Burne-jones, Edward Coley (1833-1898); Cophetua, King (legend); Paintings And Painters BUCOLIC COMEDY: LADY IMMORALINE; TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT ROSS Poem Text First Line: From the great house platformed flat as a cage Last Line: For beauty's bier. BUCOLIC COMEDY: ON THE VANITY OF HUMAN ASPIRATIONS Poem Text First Line: In the cold wind, towers grind round Last Line: "it was a sad catastrophe!" Subject(s): Vanity BUCOLIC COMEDY: PAVANE Poem Text First Line: Annunciata stands Last Line: Reached the beggar's daughter. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Dancing & Dancers BUCOLIC COMEDY: PLATITUDES Poem Text First Line: The news of queen anne's death comes to arouse Last Line: "of the snow that is cold as a nectarine!" BUCOLIC COMEDY: POLKA Poem Text First Line: Tra la la la / see me dance the polka Last Line: "la!' " BUCOLIC COMEDY: POOR MARTHA Poem Text First Line: By white wool houses thick with sleep Last Line: Poor martha, since her love is drowned. BUCOLIC COMEDY: POPULAR SONG; FOR CONSTANT LAMBERT Poem Text First Line: Lily o'grady / silly and shady Last Line: And dust forbids the bird to sing. BUCOLIC COMEDY: ROSE (IMITATED FROM SKELTON) Poem Text First Line: In the fields like an indian mazery Last Line: That made laughing rose a religion. BUCOLIC COMEDY: SERENADE Poem Text First Line: The tremulous gold of stars within your hair Last Line: Ere those bright bees have flown, and darkness dies. Subject(s): Serenity BUCOLIC COMEDY: SPINNING SONG Poem Text First Line: The miller's daughter Last Line: "if the spinning-wheel time move slow or fast." Subject(s): Spinning BUCOLIC COMEDY: SPRING Poem Text First Line: When spring begins, the maids in flocks Last Line: Singing their cold, forlorn madrigals. Subject(s): Spring BUCOLIC COMEDY: SPRINGING JACK Poem Text First Line: Green wooden leaves clap light away Last Line: Falls on my eyes and sense thrills through. BUCOLIC COMEDY: THE BEAR Poem Text First Line: Water-green is the flowing pollard Last Line: Down. Subject(s): Animals; Bears BUCOLIC COMEDY: THE DOLL Poem Text First Line: If cold grew visible again Last Line: Play with my doll, though I'm in bed! Subject(s): Dolls; Toys BUCOLIC COMEDY: THE FIVE MUSICIANS Poem Text First Line: The blue-leaved fig-trees swell with laughter Last Line: In the sleepy house of sir rotherham redde! BUCOLIC COMEDY: THE FOX; FOR ANN PEARN Poem Text First Line: Said old sir jason, the red-gold fox Last Line: Neath the wall of the tall nodding town of the shade. Subject(s): Clowns; Comedy; Laughter BUCOLIC COMEDY: THE HIGHER SENSUALISM Poem Text First Line: Queen circe, the farmer's wife at the fair Last Line: Hornpipe and rigaudon on the fair's ground. BUCOLIC COMEDY: THE TOILETTE OF MYRRHINE Poem Text First Line: Siesta time is hot in hell Last Line: The night to make her beauty-patch. BUCOLIC COMEDY: THREE POOR WITCHES Poem Text First Line: Whirring, walking / on the tree-top Last Line: Where quilted dark with tree shade joins. BUCOLIC COMEDY: TWO KITCHEN SONGS: 1 Poem Text First Line: The harsh bray and hollow Last Line: But psyche -- where, oh where, is she? BUCOLIC COMEDY: TWO KITCHEN SONGS: 2 Poem Text First Line: Grey as a guinea-fowl is the rain Last Line: "of the old witch who sits on the rail!" BUCOLIC COMEDY: WHEN THE SAILOR Poem Text First Line: When the sailor left the seas Last Line: "or dew too fair for flower to weep." BUCOLIC COMEDY: WHY Poem Text First Line: Noah's granddaughter / sat on his knee Last Line: "noah said ""damn!" Subject(s): Noah (bible) BY CANDLELIGHT Poem Text First Line: Houses red as flower of bean, Subject(s): Relationships BY THE LAKE Poem Text First Line: Across the thick and the pastel snow Last Line: Of overtones, ecstasies, grown for love's shroud. CANTICLE OF THE ROSE First Line: The rose upon the wall %cries - 'I am the voice of fire Last Line: This smel is crist, clepid the plantynge of the rose in jericho.' COUNTY CALLS First Line: They came upon us like a train DANCERS (DURING A GREAT BATTLE, 1916) First Line: The floors are slippery with blood Last Line: We dance, we dance, each night Subject(s): Women; World War I DAPHNE (2) First Line: When green as a river was the barley DIRGE FOR THE NEW SUNRISE Poem Text First Line: Bound to my heart as ixion to the wheel Subject(s): Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb DIRGE FOR THE NEW SUNRISE First Line: Bound to my heart as ixion to the wheel Last Line: As if in love - there was no more living then, %and no more love. Gone is the heart of man Subject(s): Nuclear War EIGHT SONGS TO MY SISTER GEORGIA: 1. DAPHNE Poem Text First Line: Heat of the sun that maketh all men black Last Line: To fill with richness all my desert heart. EIGHT SONGS TO MY SISTER GEORGIA: 2. THE SYLPH'S SONG Poem Text First Line: The cornucopia of ceres Last Line: "listen to my serenade." EIGHT SONGS TO MY SISTER GEORGIA: 3. THE PEACH TREE Poem Text First Line: Between the amber portals of the sea Last Line: Till at your feet I pour my golden love. EIGHT SONGS TO MY SISTER GEORGIA: 4. THE STRAWBERRY Poem Text First Line: Beneath my dog-furred leaves you see Last Line: Like all the glittering desert of the air when the hot sun goes by. EIGHT SONGS TO MY SISTER GEORGIA: 5. THE GREENGAGE TREE Poem Text First Line: From gold-mosaic'd wave Last Line: And sticky from the dew my golden net doth hold. EIGHT SONGS TO MY SISTER GEORGIA: 6. THE NECTARINE TREE Poem Text First Line: This rich and swanskin tree has grown Last Line: Or moonlight falling in her deep sea-tinselled chamber. EIGHT SONGS TO MY SISTER GEORGIA: 7. THE CHERRY TREE Poem Text First Line: Why has the shepherdess black with the sun Last Line: To the ethiopian splendour night. EIGHT SONGS TO MY SISTER GEORGIA: 8. THE SERENADE AT MORNING Poem Text First Line: A page sings Last Line: "among those green leaves sigh this serenade." ELEGY FOR DYLAN THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Black venus of the dead, what sun of night Subject(s): Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953) ELEGY: THE GHOST WHOSE LIPS WERE WARM; FOR GEOFFREY GORER Poem Text First Line: The ice, weeping, breaks Last Line: "she had to warm her eternal night." Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural ELEGY: THE HAMBONE AND THE HEART; TO PAVEL TCHELITCHEW Poem Text First Line: Here in this great house in the barrack square Last Line: The worm where once the kiss clung, and that last less chasm-deep farewell. ELEGY: THE LAMENT OF EDWARD BLASTOCK; FOR RICHARD ROWLEY Poem Text First Line: The pang of the long century of rains Last Line: Could I but know she was not this, -- not this! Subject(s): Betrayal; Blastock, Edward (d. 1738); Crime & Criminals ELEGY: THE LITTLE GHOST WHO DIED FOR LOVE; FOR ALLANAH HARPER Poem Text First Line: Fear not, o maidens, shivering Last Line: "but this old world, is sick and soon must die!" Subject(s): Churchill, Deborah (1678-1708); Ghosts; Injustice; Love; Supernatural EVENTAIL First Line: Lovely semiramis %closes her slanting eyes FACADE: 1. PERE AMELOT Poem Text First Line: The stars like quaking-grass grow in each gap Last Line: He knows there is nothing at all! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FACADE: 10. ASS-FACE Poem Text First Line: Ass-face drank / the asses' milk of the stars Last Line: Expelled from the golden bars! FACADE: 11. THE OCTOGENARIAN Poem Text First Line: The octogenarian Last Line: Vast moon azoic. FACADE: 12. SAID THE NOCTAMBULO Poem Text First Line: Beneath the gilt capricorn Last Line: "and the walled jericho." FACADE: 13. CAME THE GREAT POPINJAY Poem Text First Line: Came the great popinjay Last Line: With civet breath. FACADE: 14. BLACK MRS. BEHEMOTH Poem Text First Line: In a room of the palace Last Line: Rolling on! FACADE: 15. SAID KING POMPEY Poem Text First Line: Said king pompey, the emperor's ape Last Line: "the flunkeyed and trumpeting sea!" FACADE: 16. THE AVENUE Poem Text First Line: In the huge and glassy room Last Line: Octaves fall as emptily. FACADE: 17. DARK SONG Poem Text First Line: The fire was furry as a bear Last Line: Grumbled too! Subject(s): Animals FACADE: 18. MARINER MEN Poem Text First Line: What are you staring at, mariner-man Last Line: "(and what can that matter to me?)" FACADE: 19. FETE GALANTE Poem Text First Line: In the muscadine-glowing noon Last Line: And shakes her curls, as pearly as their shells! FACADE: 2. THE BAT Poem Text First Line: Castellated, tall, / from battlements fall Last Line: Quacks, clacks, afraid. Subject(s): Animals; Bats FACADE: 20. THE SATYR IN THE PERIWIG Poem Text First Line: The satyr scarabombardon Last Line: "tear off a satyr's periwig!" FACADE: 21. THE OWL Poem Text First Line: The currants, moonlit as mother bunch Last Line: As poor mrs. Bunch arranged her bustle. Subject(s): Birds; Owls FACADE: 22. ALONE Poem Text First Line: The vast grey trees Last Line: In the long avenue! Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness FACADE: 23. FADING SLOW Poem Text First Line: Fading slow Last Line: Rose-roots that stir! FACADE: 24. AN OLD WOMAN LAMENTS IN SPRINGTIME Poem Text First Line: I walk on grass as soft as wool Last Line: That those heavenly branches made. . . . Subject(s): Love FACADE: 25. WATER PARTY Poem Text First Line: Rose castles / those bustles Last Line: Laid low by the ondine. FACADE: 26. HORNPIPE Poem Text First Line: Sailors come / to the drum Last Line: "are hot as any hottentot and not the goods for me!" FACADE: 27. WHEN SIR BEELZEBUB Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: When / sir / beelzebub called for his syllabub in the hotel in hell Last Line: ... None of them come! Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Hell; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron FACADE: 3. CLOWN'S HOUSES Poem Text First Line: Beneath the flat and paper sky Last Line: Slowly enveloped me. FACADE: 4. THE WIND'S BASTINADO Poem Text First Line: The wind's bastinado Last Line: Of bunched leaves let her singing die. FACADE: 5. LULLABY FOR JUMBO Poem Text First Line: Jumbo asleep! Last Line: Seem still mouldier? FACADE: 6. TRIO FOR TWO CATS AND A TROMBONE Poem Text First Line: Long steel grass Last Line: In the palace of the queen chinee! FACADE: 7. MADAME MOUSE TROTS Poem Text First Line: Madame mouse trots Last Line: All's well with the world! Subject(s): Mice FACADE: 8. FOUR IN THE MORNING Poem Text First Line: Cried the navy-blue ghost Last Line: Rhinoceros-black (a flowing sea!). FACADE: 9. 'I DO LIKE TO BE BESIDE THE SEASIDE' Poem Text First Line: When / don / pasquito arrived at the seaside Last Line: For what they hear, they repeat! GARDENER First Line: The gardener was dark as tongues of nightingales GIRL AND BUTTERFLY First Line: I, an old man GOLD COAST CUSTOMS Poem Text First Line: One fantee wave Last Line: For the fires of god go marching on. Subject(s): Customs, Social; Gold Coast, Africa GREEN SONG First Line: After the long and portentous eclipse of the patient HEART AND MIND Poem Text First Line: Said the lion to the lioness - 'when you are amber dust' Last Line: One.' Subject(s): Love - Nature Of HERODIADE; TO INEZ CHANDOS-PEALE Poem Text First Line: The snow dies, that was cold as coral Last Line: Their's is no dance that she must learn. HOLIDAY First Line: O you, all life, and you, the prinial cause HOW MANY HEAVENS Poem Text First Line: The emeralds are singing on the grasses Subject(s): Spring HOW MANY HEAVENS First Line: The emeralds are singing on the grasses Subject(s): Spring HYMN TO VENUS First Line: Lady, beside the great green wall of sea INTERLUDE Poem Text First Line: Amid this hot green glowing gloom Last Line: And bird-blood leap within your veins. LADY WITH THE SEWING-MACHINE First Line: Across the fields as green as spinach LULLABY First Line: Though the world has slipped and gone Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War LULLABY First Line: Though the world has slipped and gone Last Line: And with the ape thou art alone - %do, do Subject(s): World War Ii MADWOMAN IN THE PARK; TO HORACE GREGORY First Line: There were no lines of violent diamonds, blinding light Last Line: Can you tell? - o you, the aurelia from which that great butterfly the night arises! MARINE Poem Text First Line: Pink faces (worlds or flowers or seas or stars) Last Line: Disturb the general somnolence. Subject(s): Fireworks; Music & Musicians METROPOLITAN Poem Text First Line: The world grows furry, grunts with sleep Last Line: Strange threads to hold time fast. Subject(s): Memory; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips MOST LOVELY SHADE; FOR ALICE BOUVERIE Poem Text First Line: Most lovely dark, my aethiopia born Last Line: Shall pour such splendour as your heart to me. Subject(s): Clouds MR. AND MRS. SOUTHERN, SELS. First Line: I seem to see again NIGHT PIECE Poem Text First Line: The shadows' saracenic hordes Last Line: Of age and wait for the clock's cold chime. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT PIECE (2) Poem Text First Line: The cold hours pass Last Line: Neath the wintry moon! Subject(s): Night; Bedtime PERPETUUM MOBILE Poem Text First Line: Pilk lauds the verse of jobble to the skies Subject(s): Criticism & Critics PERPETUUM MOBILE First Line: Pilk lauds the verse of jobble to the skies Subject(s): Critics And Criticism POET LAMENTS THE COMING OF OLD AGE First Line: I see the children running out of school Last Line: And the great heart that the first morning made %should wear all time's destruction for a dress PRELUDE TO A FAIRY TALE Poem Text First Line: Clear as wistaria branches, waterfalls Last Line: Shouted in all the gutters of the town. Subject(s): Fairy Tales PRELUDE; FOR GEOFFREY GORER Poem Text First Line: When our long sun into the dark had set Last Line: Remakes all things and men in holiness. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heroism; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Heroes; Heroines SAILOR, WHAT OF THE ISLES SCOTCH RHAPSODY First Line: Do not take a bath in jordan Last Line: That is the place -- that is the place -- that is the place for me SERENADE: ANY MAN TO ANY WOMAN Poem Text First Line: Dark angel who art clear and straight Subject(s): Women SERENADE: ANY MAN TO ANY WOMAN First Line: Dark angel who art clear and straight Last Line: Born of my tears - your lips, the bright %summer-old folly of the rose Subject(s): Women SHADOW OF CAIN; TO C.M. BOWRA First Line: Under great yellow flags and banners of ancient cold Last Line: He walks again on the seas of blood, he comes in the terrible rain SOLO FOR EAR-TRUMPET First Line: The carriage brushes through the bright SONG First Line: Once my heart was a summer rose SONG AT MORNING First Line: The weeping rose in her dark night of leaves Last Line: Nor sorrow darker than her night of leaves Subject(s): Grief SONG; TO ALBERTO DE LACERDA First Line: Where is all the bright company gone Last Line: For had I never the apple-branch broken, %death had not fallen on mankind and me Subject(s): Women STILL FALLS THE RAIN; THE RAIDS, 1940. NIGHT AND DAWN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Still falls the rain - / dark as the world of man, black as our loss Last Line: "still do I love, still shed my innocent light, my blood, for thee." Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Crucifixion; Religion; World War Ii; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology; Second World War STREET SONG First Line: Love my heart for an hour, but my bone for a day' Last Line: Or the burden of atlas falling SWANS First Line: In the green light of water, like the day Last Line: With snows as soft, as soundless - then, who knows %rose-footed swan from snow, or girl from rose Subject(s): Birds; Swans TEARS; TO PAVEL TCHELITCHEW First Line: My tears were orion's splendour with sextuple suns and the million Last Line: Hard diamond, infinite sun THE COAT OF FIRE Poem Text First Line: Amid the thunders of the falling dark Last Line: The heedless world upon a heaving shoulder. Subject(s): Humanity THE DANCERS (DURING A GREAT BATTLE, 1916) Poem Text First Line: The floors are slippery with blood Subject(s): Women; World War I; First World War THE DRUM: THE NARRATIVE OF THE DEMON OF TEDWORTH Poem Text First Line: In his tall senatorial Last Line: Where the drum rolls up the stair, nor tarries. Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; Winter; Witchcraft & Witches THE MADNESS OF SAUL Poem Text First Line: O vineyards of the world, cry to the dawn Last Line: Crush down the beat of time. It was my heart. THE MAN WITH THE GREEN PATCH Poem Text First Line: Look through those periwigged green trees Last Line: Murmuring softly, never die. THE SLEEPING BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: When we come to that dark house Last Line: "and songs no heart can understand." THE SWANS Poem Text First Line: In the green light of water, like the day Subject(s): Birds; Swans THE WEB OF EROS Poem Text First Line: Within your magic web of hair lies furled Last Line: The fire and splendour of the ancient world. THE YOUTH WITH RED-GOLD HAIR Poem Text First Line: The gold-armoured ghost from the roman road Last Line: Forlorn.' Subject(s): Aging; Sun; Youth TOURNEZ, TOURNEZ, BON CHEVAUX DE BOIS' Poem Text TRAMS First Line: Castles of crystal Last Line: Blowing her nose TROY PARK: 1. THE WARMTH OF SPRING Poem Text First Line: Under the five-pointed, the great gold sun Last Line: "the clouds have long wild hair that tangles sleep." Subject(s): Spring TROY PARK: 2. COLONEL FANTOCK Poem Text First Line: Thus spoke the lady underneath the trees Last Line: Cold death had taken his first citadel. TROY PARK: 3. MADEMOISELLE RICHARDE Poem Text First Line: Beside the haunted lake where nereids seem Last Line: And she has her own resting-place at last. TROY PARK: 4. THE PLEASURE GARDENS Poem Text First Line: Do you remember, damon, the hot noons Last Line: Songs from some far-off land, -- the distant music! TROY PARK: 5. THE CAT Poem Text First Line: His kind velvet bonnet Last Line: With nobody to care. Subject(s): Animals; Cats TROY PARK: 6. PANDORA'S BOX Poem Text First Line: Suave as music the long house seemed platformed Last Line: Yet all that box held was a small thin letter. TWO PROMENADES SENTIMENTALES: 1. RAIN Poem Text First Line: Beside the smooth black lacquer sea Last Line: Embodied in this ghostly hour. . . . Subject(s): Rain TWO PROMENADES SENTIMENTALES: 2. PROFESSOR SPEAKS Poem Text First Line: One time when the cold red winter sun Last Line: Of ivory, scentless flowers are born. TWO SONGS OF QUEEN ANNE BOLEYN 1 First Line: The king of nowhere said to me Last Line: And the soul that was the root of being %changes to nothing-town TWO SONGS OF QUEEN ANNE BOLEYN 2 First Line: As I lay in my love's low bed Last Line: With the two pence and the thirty pence %and the sins of the world on our eyes TWO VARIATIONS ON AN OLD NURSEY RHYME: 1 Poem Text First Line: The king of china's daughter, / she never would love me Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love - Cultural Differences; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TWO VARIATIONS ON AN OLD NURSEY RHYME: 1 First Line: The king of china's daughter, %she never would love me Last Line: When I hung my cap and bells upon %her nutmeg tree Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Love - Cultural Differences TWO VARIATIONS ON AN OLD NURSEY RHYME: 2 Poem Text First Line: The king of china's daughter / so beautiful to see Last Line: Has yet caught me. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Courtship; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens VARIATIONS ON A THEME: ELEGY ON DEAD FASHION; TO THOMAS BALSTON Poem Text First Line: Queen venus' old historians seem like bees Last Line: Some memory of what I was, and weep. VARIATIONS ON A THEME: METAMORPHOSIS Poem Text First Line: The coral-cold snow seemed the parthenon Last Line: In the sun's light, before my sad eternities. VARIATIONS ON A THEME: ROMANCE Poem Text First Line: She grew within his heart as the flushed rose Last Line: A ghost turn to a perfume on the leaves. Subject(s): Romance WHAT THE GOOSE-GIRL SAID ABOUT THE DEAN Poem Text First Line: Turn again, turn again, / goose clothilda, goosie jane. Subject(s): Snoring WINTER Poem Text First Line: Dagobert lay in front of the fire Last Line: And ripens not in the heart or head! Subject(s): Winter YESTERDAY First Line: Sweet was my childish life to me YOU, THE YOUNG RAINBOW OF MY TEARS, THE GENTLE HALCYON Last Line: From the flowering earth and darkness of my heart |
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