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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... walk united , bearing food to all our tender flowers . " " Dost thou , O little Cloud ? I fear that I am not like thee , For I walk thro ' the vales of Har , and smell the sweetest flowers , But I feed not the little flowers ; I hear ...
... walk united , bearing food to all our tender flowers . " " Dost thou , O little Cloud ? I fear that I am not like thee , For I walk thro ' the vales of Har , and smell the sweetest flowers , But I feed not the little flowers ; I hear ...
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... walk by a whole row of them , and find nothing of their sweetness ; yea , though it be in a morning's dew . Bays likewise yield no smell as they grow . Rosemary little ; nor sweet marjoram . That which above all others yields the ...
... walk by a whole row of them , and find nothing of their sweetness ; yea , though it be in a morning's dew . Bays likewise yield no smell as they grow . Rosemary little ; nor sweet marjoram . That which above all others yields the ...
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... not know how the gentlemen of the Far East , carrying their bird - cages , or with a bird held on one arm by a chain , will examine a flower , will walk PLANET AND GLOW - WORM 29 LE GUIGNON Charles Baudelaire FAR AWAY Osbert Sitwell.
... not know how the gentlemen of the Far East , carrying their bird - cages , or with a bird held on one arm by a chain , will examine a flower , will walk PLANET AND GLOW - WORM 29 LE GUIGNON Charles Baudelaire FAR AWAY Osbert Sitwell.
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