Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell Bright Poems

• 1. Heart And Mind
  SAID the Lion to the Lioness-'When you are amber dust,-
  No more a raging fire like the heat of the Sun
  (No liking but all lust)-
  Remember still the flowering of the amber blood and bone,
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• 2. Eventail
  Lovely Semiramis
  Closes her slanting eyes:
  Dead is she long ago,
  From her fan sliding slow
  ...
• 3. Clowns' Houses
  BENEATH the flat and paper sky
  The sun, a demon's eye,
  Glowed through the air, that mask of glass;
  All wand'ring sounds that pass
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• 4. Solo For Ear-trumpet
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• 5. The Fan
  LOVELY Semiramis
  Closes her slanting eyes:
  Dead is she long ago.
  From her fan, sliding slow,
  ...
• 6. Portrait Of A Barmaid
  Metallic waves of people jar
  Through crackling green toward the bar
  
  Where on the tables chattering-white
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• 7. The Web Of Eros
  Within your magic web of hair, lies furled
  The fire and splendour of the ancient world;
  The dire gold of the comet's wind-blown hair;
  The songs that turned to gold the evening air
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