Month: September 2020

“The Ambush” by William Kean Seymour

"The Ambush"

Wild one, wild one, fleeing through the woods,

Your skin is rent with thorns, dark fear is in

your eyes."

 

"A deer was caught by giant snakes with soft and gleaming

hoods:

[ . . . ]

 

William Kean Seymour's poem "The Ambush" was published in the 1920 Wheels anthology. To read this poem in full in a digitized version of this publication, follow the link(s) below:

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The Modernist Journals Project

 

“Beauty and Beauty” by Rupert Brooke

"Beauty and Beauty"

When Beauty and Beauty meet
All naked, fair to fair,
The earth is crying-sweet,
And scattering-bright the air,
Eddying, dizzying, closing round,
With soft and drunken laughter;
Veiling all that may befall
After—after—

Where Beauty and Beauty met,
Earth's still a-tremble there,
And winds are scented yet,
And memory-soft the air,
Bosoming, folding glints of light,
And shreds of shadowy laughter;
Not the tears that fill the years
After—after—

Rupert Brooke's poem "Beauty and Beauty" was published in Georgian Poetry, 1913-1915. To read this poem in a digitized version of this publication, follow the link(s) below:

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HathiTrust 

Project Gutenberg (text version)

“Vicarious Atonement” by Richard Aldington

"Vicarious Atonement"

This is an old and very cruel god . . .

 

We will endure;

We will try not to wince

When he crushes and rends us.

[ . . . ]

Richard Aldington's poem "Vicarious Atonement" was published in the 1917 Some Imagist Poets anthology. To read this poem in full in a digitized version of this publication, follow the link(s) below:

HathiTrust - Digitized by the University of Virginia

The Modernist Journals Project

Project Gutenberg (HTML version)

“Crowds” by Evelyn Scott

"Crowds"

The sky along the street a gauzy yellow—

The narrow lights burn tall in the twilight.

 

The cool air sags,

Heavy with the thickness of bodies.

[ . . . ]

 

Evelyn Scott's poem "Crowds" was published in 1920 in the third Others anthology. To read this poem in full in a digitized version of this publication, follow the link(s) below:

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