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The Social Order
The Social Order
I
This government official
Whose wife is several years his senior,
Has such a caressing air
When he shakes hands…
The Seafarer
The Seafarer
(From the early Anglo-Saxon text)
May I for my own self song's truth reckon,
Journey's jargon, how I in harsh days <…
The Rest
The Rest
O helpless few in my country, remnant enslaved!
Artists broken against her,
A-stray, lost in the villages,
Mistr…
The River Song
The River Song
This boat is of shato-wood, and its gunwales are cut
magnolia,
Musicians with jewelled flutes and with pipes of gold
Fill …
The Picture
The Picture
The eyes of this dead lady speak to me,
For here was love, was not to be drowned out.
And here desire, not to be kissed away.
…
The New Cake Of Soap
The New Cake Of Soap
Lo, how it gleams and glistens in the sun
Like the cheek of a Chesterton.
The Logical Conclusion
The Logical Conclusion
When earth's last thesis is copied
From the theses that went before,
When idea from fact has departed
And bare-bon…
The Jewel Stairs' Grievance
The Jewel Stairs' Grievance
The jewelled steps are already quite white with dew,
It is so late that the dew soaks my gauze stockings,
And I let d…
The Garden
The Garden
En robe de parade. Samain
Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall
She walks by the railing of a path in Kensin…
The Gypsy
The Gypsy
That was the top of the walk, when he said:
'Have you seen any others, any of our lot,
With apes or bears?'
A brown upstanding …
The Fault of It
The Fault of It
Some may have blamed us that we cease to speak
Of things we spoke of in our verses early,
Saying: a lovely voice is such as such;…
The Flame
The Flame
‘Tis not a game that plays at mates and mating,
Provençe knew;
'Tis not a game of barter, lands and houses,
Provençe knew.
The Coming Of War: Actaeon
The Coming Of War: Actaeon
An image of Lethe,
and the fields
Full of faint light
but golden,
Gray cliffs,
and beneath the…
The Encounter
The Encounter
All the while they were talking the new morality
Her eyes explored me.
And when I rose to go
Her fingers were like the tiss…
The Bellaires
The Bellaires
The good Bellaires
Do not understand the conduct of this world's affairs.
In fact they understood them so badly
That they h…
The City Of Choan
The City Of Choan
The phoenix are at play on their terrace.
The phoenix are gone, the river Hows on alone.
Flowers and grass
Cover over t…
The Bath-Tub
The Bath-Tub
As a bathtub lined with white porcelain,
When the hot water gives out or goes tepid,
So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passio…
The Altar
The Altar
Let us build here an exquisite friendship,
The flame, the autumn, and the green rose of love
Fought out their strife here, 'tis a place…
Tame Cat
Tame Cat
It rests me to be among beautiful women
Why should one always lie about such matters?
I repeat:
It rests me to converse with bea…
Tenzone
Tenzone
Will people accept them?
(i.e. these songs).
As a timorous wench from a centaur
(or a centurion),
…
Surgit Fama
Surgit Fama
There is a truce among the gods,
Kore is seen in the North
Skirting the blue-gray sea
In gilded and russet mantle.
Th…
Statement of Being
Statement of Being
I am a grave poetic hen
That lays poetic eggs
And to enhance my temperament
A little quiet begs.
Speech For Psyche In The Golden Book Of Apuleius
Speech For Psyche In The Golden Book Of Apuleius
All night, and as the wind lieth among
The cypress trees, he lay,
Nor held me save as air that b…
Song Of The Six Hundred M.P.'S
Song Of The Six Hundred M.P.'S
‘We are 'ere met together
in this momentous hower,
Ter lick th' bankers' dirty boots
an' keep the Bank in …