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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... forrests , Vouchsafe your silent eares to plaining musike , Which to my woes give still an earlie morning , And drawes the dolor on till wearie evening . KLAIUS O Mercurie , foregoer to the evening , O heavenly huntresse of the savage ...
... forrests , Vouchsafe your silent eares to plaining musike , Which to my woes give still an earlie morning , And drawes the dolor on till wearie evening . KLAIUS O Mercurie , foregoer to the evening , O heavenly huntresse of the savage ...
Page 71
... forrests . STREPHON I that was once free burgesse of the forrests , Where shade from Sunne , and sports I sought at evening , I that was once esteem'd for pleasant musike , Am banisht now among the monstrous mountaines Of huge despaire ...
... forrests . STREPHON I that was once free burgesse of the forrests , Where shade from Sunne , and sports I sought at evening , I that was once esteem'd for pleasant musike , Am banisht now among the monstrous mountaines Of huge despaire ...
Page 72
... forrests . STREPHON I wish to fire the trees of all those forrests , I give the Sunne a last farewell each evening , I curse the fidling finders out of musike : With envie I doo hate the loftie mountaines ; And with dispite despise the ...
... forrests . STREPHON I wish to fire the trees of all those forrests , I give the Sunne a last farewell each evening , I curse the fidling finders out of musike : With envie I doo hate the loftie mountaines ; And with dispite despise the ...
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