Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell Hair Poems

  • 1.
    CAME the great Popinjay
    Smelling his nosegay:
    In cages like grots
    The birds sang gavottes.
    ...
  • 2.
    Mid this hot green glowing gloom
    A word falls with a raindrop's boom...

    Like baskets of ripe fruit in air
    ...
  • 3.
    Metallic waves of people jar
    Through crackling green toward the bar

    Where on the tables chattering-white
    ...
  • 4.
    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
    ...
  • 5.
    JANE, Jane,
    Tall as a crane,
    The morning light creaks down again;

    ...
Total 5 Hair Poems by Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell

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