"New Saints"
Christ Communist, accept these latest
Saints following the antique way,
Liebknecht, who scorned kings and the greatest,
And Rosa, now grown "mystica."
His flesh was parted, a new mass
[ . . . ]
Sherard Vines' poem "New Saints" was published in the 1919 Wheels anthology. To read this poem in full in a digitized version of this publication, follow the link(s) below:
"Her New-Year Posy"
When I seek the world through
For images of you,
Though apple-blossom is glad
And the lily stately-sad,
Gilliflowers kind of breath,
Rosemary true till death;
[ . . . ]
WIlliam Kerr's poem "Her New-Year Posy" was published in the Georgian Poetry, 1920-1922. To read this poem in full in a digitized version of this publication, follow the link(s) below:
"Brooding Grief"
A yellow leaf from the darkness
Hops like a frog before me —
— Why should I start and stand still?
I was watching the woman that bore me
Stretched in the brindled darkness
Of the sick-room, rigid with will
To die —
And the quick leaf tore me
Back to this rainy swill
Of leaves and lamps and traffic mingled before me.
D.H. Lawrence's poem "Brooding Grief" was published in the 1916 Some Imagist Poets anthology. To read this poem in a digitized version of this publication, follow the link(s) below:
The Modernist Journals Project
Project Gutenberg (text version)
"The Dancer"
They were godly people, all of them,
With whom I dined
in the café that night—
Substantial citizens
With their virtuous wives
And a stray daughter or two . . .
And when I spoke my admiration of your dancing,—
You, the little half-clothed painted cabaret performer
Who was pirouetting before us,—
I received a curious answer.—
It was only as the absurd voicing
Of a preposterous fancy
That one of the virtuous wives said to me—
"Why don't you go over and dance with her your-
self!"
[ . . . ]
Arthur Davison Ficke's poem "The Dancer" was published in the 1916 Others anthology. To read this poem in full in a digitized version of this publication, follow the link(s) below: