Dame Edith Sitwell Long Poems

  • 1.
    Lovely Semiramis
    Closes her slanting eyes:
    Dead is she long ago.
    From her fan, sliding slow,
    ...
  • 2.
    Came the great Popinjay
    Smelling his nosegay:
    In cages like grots
    The birds sang gavottes.
    ...
  • 3.
    Bells of gray crystal
    Break on each bough-
    The swans' breath will mist all
    The cold airs now.
    ...
Total 3 Long Poems by Dame Edith Sitwell

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I'M Ceded-i'Ve Stopped Being Theirs
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I'm ceded-I've stopped being Theirs-
The name They dropped upon my face
With water, in the country church
Is finished using, now,
And They can put it with my Dolls,
My childhood, and the string of spools,
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