Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell

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Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell Sea Poems

  • 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.
    Across the fields as green as spinach,
    Cropped as close as Time to Greenwich,

    Stands a high house; if at all,
    ...
  • 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.
    Metallic waves of people jar
    Through crackling green toward the bar

    Where on the tables chattering-white
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Total 5 Sea Poems by Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell

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