Poet Dame Edith Sitwell

Dame Edith Sitwell

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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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Ballade Of The Midnight Forest
 by Andrew Lang

Still sing the mocking fairies, as of old,
Beneath the shade of thorn and holly-tree;
The west wind breathes upon them, pure and cold,
And wolves still dread Diana roaming free
In secret woodland with her company.
'Tis thought the peasants' hovels know her rite
When now the wolds are bathed in silver light,
And first the moonrise breaks the dusky grey,
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