Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BUCOLIC COMEDY: ROSE (IMITATED FROM SKELTON), by EDITH SITWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the fields like an indian mazery Last Line: That made laughing rose a religion. | ||||||||
IN the fields like an Indian mazery That the foolish moon has flowered, Rose Bertin is walking lazily where The fringe of the field is bowered With trees as dark as the ancient creeds Of China and of Ind . . . Rose Bertin walks through the fields' pearled weeds Where haunts the satyr wind. "Where are you going to, my pretty maid," That negroid satyr sighs . . . "To feed my pretty chucks, sir," she said -- "Each feathered thing that flies. To feed them with the sun's gold grains In the fields' sparse Indian chintz; But now those grains are spilt like rains, And still light feathery glints Fly in my brain." . . . Those bright birds flock, The butterbump, the urban Ranee stork, the turkey-cock (Red paladin in a turban), The crane who talks through his long nose, The plump and foolish quail -- In their feathered robes they follow Rose, And never once they fail. And Harriet, Susan, Rose and Polly, Silken and frilled as a pigeon Sleek them and praise the golden folly That made laughing Rose a religion. | 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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