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Sestina: Altaforte
Sestina: Altaforte
Loquitur: En Bertrans de Born.
Dante Alighieri put this man in hell for that he was a
stirrer-up of strife.
Eccovi!
Silet
Silet
When I behold how black, immortal ink
Drips from my deathless pen - ah, well-away!
Why should we stop at all for what I think?
Salvationists
Salvationists
I
Come, my songs, let us speak of perfection
We shall get ourselves rather disliked.
II
Ah …
Sennin Poem By Kakuhaku
Sennin Poem By Kakuhaku
The red and green kingfishers
flash between the orchids and clover,
One bird casts its gleam on another.
Green vi…
Safe And Sound
Safe And Sound
My name is Nunty Cormorant
And my finance is sound,
I lend you Englishmen hot air
At one and three the pound.
Salutation The Second
Salutation The Second
You were praised, my books,
because I had just come from the country;
I was twenty years behind the times
so you fo…
Quies
Quies
This is another of our ancient loves.
Pass and be silent, Rullus, for the day
Hath lacked a something since this lady passed;
Prayer For His Lady’s Life
Prayer For His Lady’s Life
FROM PROPERTIUS, ELEGIAE, LIB. III, 26
Here let thy clemency, Persephone, hold firm,
Do thou, Pluto, bring here no gre…
Poetic Eggs
Poetic Eggs
I am a grave poetic hen
That lays poetic eggs
And to enhance my temperament
A little quiet begs.
We m…
Post Mortem Conspectu
Post Mortem Conspectu
A brown, fat babe sitting in the lotus,
And you were glad and laughing
With a laughter not of this world.
It is goo…
Piere Vidal Old
Piere Vidal Old
When I but think upon the great dead days
And turn my mind upon that splendid madness,
Lo! I do curse my strength
And bla…
Poem
Poem
(Abbreviated from the conversation with Mr. T E H.
Over the flat slope of St Eloi
A wide wall of sandbags.
N…
Phyllidula
Phyllidula
Phyllidula is scrawny but amorous,
Thus have the gods awarded her,
That in pleasure she receives more than she can give;
Paracelsus In Excelsis
Paracelsus In Excelsis
‘Being no longer human, why should I
Pretend humanity or don the frail attire?
Men have I known and men, but never one
Ortus
Ortus
How have I laboured?
How have I not laboured
To bring her soul to birth,
To give these elements a name and a centre!
…
Pagani’s, November 8
Pagani’s, November 8
Suddenly discovering in the eyes of the very beautiful
Normande cocotte
The eyes of the very learned British Museum assistant.
Ole Kate
Ole Kate
When I was only a youngster,
Sing: toodle doodlede ootl
Ole Kate would git her 'arf a pint
And wouldn't' giv' a damn hoot.
Of Jacopo Del Sellaio
Of Jacopo Del Sellaio
This man knew out the secret ways of love,
No man could paint such things who did not know.
And now she's gone, who was his…
Near Perigord
Near Perigord
I
You'd have men's hearts up from the dust
And tell their secrets, Messire Cino,
Rigkt enough? Then read between the lines …
Night Litany
Night Litany
O Dieu, purifiez nos cceurs!
Purifiez nos coeurs !
Yea the lines hast thou laid unto me
in pleasant places, …
Na Audiart
Na Audiart
Though thou well dost wish me ill
Audiart, Audiart,
Where thy bodice laces start
As ivy fingers clutching through
Its …
Mr. Nixon
Mr. Nixon
In the cream gilded cabin of his steam yacht
Mr. Nixon advised me kindly, to advance with fewer
Dangers of delay. 'Consider
Car…
Middle-Aged
Middle-Aged
‘Tis but a vague, invarious delight
As gold that rains about some buried king.
As the fine flakes,
Wh…
Monumentum Aere, Etc.
Monumentum Aere, Etc.
You say that I take a good deal upon myself;
That I strut in the robes of assumption.
In a few years no one…