Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell

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  • 1.
    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,
    ...
  • 2.
    Lovely Semiramis
    Closes her slanting eyes:
    Dead is she long ago,
    From her fan sliding slow
    ...
  • 3.
    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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  • 5.
    LOVELY Semiramis
    Closes her slanting eyes:
    Dead is she long ago.
    From her fan, sliding slow,
    ...
  • 6.
    Metallic waves of people jar
    Through crackling green toward the bar

    Where on the tables chattering-white
    ...
  • 7.
    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
    ...
Total 7 Bright Poems by Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell

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