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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... 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 GIRL . From Marjorie Fleming's Journal THE ...
... 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 GIRL . From Marjorie Fleming's Journal THE ...
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... lady weeps , " No sound , no sound . Oh , misery ! " she wails . And he , at the mallet stroke , " Repent , repent ... lady's wits , haunted her heart with woe . The mallet lashed , as these waves lash the shore . Lash on the ice of the ...
... lady weeps , " No sound , no sound . Oh , misery ! " she wails . And he , at the mallet stroke , " Repent , repent ... lady's wits , haunted her heart with woe . The mallet lashed , as these waves lash the shore . Lash on the ice of the ...
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... lady , hateful ! " he cried , and sank again Into the whirlpool of desire . Hatsuyuki ( Early Snow ) By KOMPARU Zembō Motoyasu ( 1453-1532 ) Persons EVENING MIST , a servant girl . A LADY , the Abbot's daughter . TWO NOBLE LADIES . THE ...
... lady , hateful ! " he cried , and sank again Into the whirlpool of desire . Hatsuyuki ( Early Snow ) By KOMPARU Zembō Motoyasu ( 1453-1532 ) Persons EVENING MIST , a servant girl . A LADY , the Abbot's daughter . TWO NOBLE LADIES . THE ...
Contents
OF GOLDEN HAIR Robert Burton | 1 |
PREFACE | 3 |
THE BREATH OF FLOWERS Francis Bacon | 17 |
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