Planet and Glow-worm: A Book for the SleeplessEdith Sitwell Macmillan & Company Limited, 1944 - 82 pages Contains poetry and extracts from drama and prose works. Includes some of Arthur Waley's translations of Chinese poetry. |
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Page 33
... lost it , the Government would have taken it . This simile , which passed into a proverb in China and Japan , occurs first in Chuang Tzu , chap . xxii . CHORUS . Comes not even in dream . At dawn PLANET AND GLOW - WORM 33.
... lost it , the Government would have taken it . This simile , which passed into a proverb in China and Japan , occurs first in Chuang Tzu , chap . xxii . CHORUS . Comes not even in dream . At dawn PLANET AND GLOW - WORM 33.
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A Book for the Sleepless Edith Sitwell. CHORUS . Comes not even in dream . At dawn and dusk GARDENER . No drum sounds . CHORUS . She has not come . Is it not sung that those Whom love has joined Not even the God of Thunder can divide ...
A Book for the Sleepless Edith Sitwell. CHORUS . Comes not even in dream . At dawn and dusk GARDENER . No drum sounds . CHORUS . She has not come . Is it not sung that those Whom love has joined Not even the God of Thunder can divide ...
Page 58
... dream , the flesh of poets , solar statues , nocturnal masks , white rose - trees , flowering in the snow , chimeras , vierges illuminées . ( Rough translation of a prose poem by PAUL ÉLUARD . - E.S . ) For Cooling the Face And withal ...
... dream , the flesh of poets , solar statues , nocturnal masks , white rose - trees , flowering in the snow , chimeras , vierges illuminées . ( Rough translation of a prose poem by PAUL ÉLUARD . - E.S . ) For Cooling the Face And withal ...
Contents
OF GOLDEN HAIR Robert Burton | 1 |
PREFACE | 3 |
THE BREATH OF FLOWERS Francis Bacon | 17 |
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