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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... sorrows , dry brains " , drive rest away ; it contains some of the composing and calming beauties that , in the compiler's own experience , bring a happy sleep in their train . Here are evocations of a beauty that conceals no terror ...
... sorrows , dry brains " , drive rest away ; it contains some of the composing and calming beauties that , in the compiler's own experience , bring a happy sleep in their train . Here are evocations of a beauty that conceals no terror ...
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... sorrow was heaped , The new sorrow of love . The days had left their marks , Coming and coming , like waves that beat on a sandy shore . CHORUS . Oh , with a thunder of white waves The echo of the drum shall roll . GARDENER . The after ...
... sorrow was heaped , The new sorrow of love . The days had left their marks , Coming and coming , like waves that beat on a sandy shore . CHORUS . Oh , with a thunder of white waves The echo of the drum shall roll . GARDENER . The after ...
Page 77
... sorrow's mysteries ; For shade to shade will come too drowsily , And drown the wakeful anguish of the soul . But when the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud , That fosters the droop - headed flowers all ...
... sorrow's mysteries ; For shade to shade will come too drowsily , And drown the wakeful anguish of the soul . But when the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud , That fosters the droop - headed flowers all ...
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