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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... FAIR AND LOVELY MISTRIS ANNE SOAME , NOW LADY ABDIE . Robert Herrick 59 THE TWO PLEASANT GHOSTS . John Aubrey 60 TO HIS HONOURED KINSMAN SIR WILLIAM SOAME . Robert Herrick 61 THE MOON . John Keats 61 NIGHT . Gertrude Stein 62 A LITTLE ...
... FAIR AND LOVELY MISTRIS ANNE SOAME , NOW LADY ABDIE . Robert Herrick 59 THE TWO PLEASANT GHOSTS . John Aubrey 60 TO HIS HONOURED KINSMAN SIR WILLIAM SOAME . Robert Herrick 61 THE MOON . John Keats 61 NIGHT . Gertrude Stein 62 A LITTLE ...
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... fair nurse , shadow my white hair : Shine sun , burn fire ; breathe , air , and ease me ; Black shade , fair nurse , shroud me and please me : Shadow , my sweet nurse , keep me from burning , Make not my glad cause , cause of mourning ...
... fair nurse , shadow my white hair : Shine sun , burn fire ; breathe , air , and ease me ; Black shade , fair nurse , shroud me and please me : Shadow , my sweet nurse , keep me from burning , Make not my glad cause , cause of mourning ...
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... fair and sweet and medicinal , than the prettiest Tulips that are good for nothing : And my Sheep and Kine are better servants than race - Horses and Grayhounds . JEREMY TAYLOR , Discourse of Friendship , 1657 Upon Julia's Haire fill'd ...
... fair and sweet and medicinal , than the prettiest Tulips that are good for nothing : And my Sheep and Kine are better servants than race - Horses and Grayhounds . JEREMY TAYLOR , Discourse of Friendship , 1657 Upon Julia's Haire fill'd ...
Contents
OF GOLDEN HAIR Robert Burton | 1 |
PREFACE | 3 |
THE BREATH OF FLOWERS Francis Bacon | 17 |
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aimé amante âme Arthur Waley baiser beat the drum Beauty ben blake bird C'est CHARLES BAUDELAIRE CHORUS clept Cloud colour Contree COURTIER cristall d'une damask drum DELIO doth Dragon dyamandes Early Snow ECHO Ethiope eyes fade femmes fleur du silence fleur hypocrite flowers forrests fynden Garden of Cyrus GARDENER GEORGE PEELE GÉRARD DE NERVAL GHOST gode golden gret grete growen hair Hast thov hath Hatsuyuki heart heaven Jade kepethe KLAIUS kynde l'eau lady lond Lullay Lune morning musike night noire nuit ô rose Oothoon outen parfum Plantations pleine PRINCESS ROBERT BURTON ROBERT HERRICK Rose au cœur Rose au front rose couleur rouge SACHEVERELL SITWELL seul SITWELL sleep smale smell soleil sorrow soul sound sous springs sume sweet syde tears thee Thel thou Tombe tree vales vallies verte vertue violet Virgin voice waves weeping whan Willough wind Worm yeux