Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell

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  • 1.
    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.
    CAME the great Popinjay
    Smelling his nosegay:
    In cages like grots
    The birds sang gavottes.
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  • 3.
    Lovely Semiramis
    Closes her slanting eyes:
    Dead is she long ago,
    From her fan sliding slow
    ...
  • 4.
    Bells of gray crystal
    Break on each bough--
    The swans' breath will mist all
    The cold airs now.
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  • 5.
    LOVELY Semiramis
    Closes her slanting eyes:
    Dead is she long ago.
    From her fan, sliding slow,
    ...
Total 5 Long Poems by Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell

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