Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell Green Poems
- 1. The Lady With The Sewing-machine
Across the fields as green as spinach,
Cropped as close as Time to Greenwich,
Stands a high house; if at all,
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- 2. Eventail
Lovely Semiramis
Closes her slanting eyes:
Dead is she long ago,
From her fan sliding slow
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- 3. Interlude
Mid this hot green glowing gloom
A word falls with a raindrop's boom...
Like baskets of ripe fruit in air
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- 4. 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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- 5. The Fan
LOVELY Semiramis
Closes her slanting eyes:
Dead is she long ago.
From her fan, sliding slow,
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- 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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Total 6
Green Poems by Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
Top 10 most used topics by Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
Cold 9
Bright 7
Green 6
White 6
Light 6
Hair 5
Sea 5
Long 5
Wind 5
Fire 4
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