David Gascoyne Time Poems
- 1. The End Is Near The Beginning
Yes you have said enough for the time being
There will be plenty of lace later on
Plenty of electric wool
And you will forget the eglantine
... - 2. Orpheus In The Underworld
Curtains of rock
And tears of stone,
Wet leaves in a high crevice of the sky:
From side to side the draperies
... - 3. The Cage
In the waking night
The forests have stopped growing
The shells are listening
The shadows in the pools turn grey
... - 4. Spring Mcmxl
London Bridge is falling down, Rome's burnt and Babylon
The Great is now but dust; yet still Spring must
Swing back through Time's continual arc to earth.
Though every land become as a black field
... - 5. And The Seventh Dream Is The Dream Of Isis
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white curtains of infinite fatigue
dominating the starborn heritage of the colonies of St Francis
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