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,
  ...
• 2. Eventail
  Lovely Semiramis
  Closes her slanting eyes:
  Dead is she long ago,
  From her fan sliding slow
  ...
• 3. Interlude
  Mid this hot green glowing gloom
  A word falls with a raindrop's boom...
  
  Like baskets of ripe fruit in air
  ...
• 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
  ...
• 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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