“Perfidy” by D.H. Lawrence
Perfidy Hollow rang the house when I knocked at the door, And I lingered on the threshold with my hand ...
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“Aberrantry” by H.R. Barbor
Aberrantry Go forth, my song's antithesis, Make a loud claim, acclaim your claim Beyond the Word's periphrasis. Perchance unwisdom, sensing ...
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“Sullen Moods” by Robert Graves
Sullen Moods Love, do not count your labour lost Though I turn sullen, grim, retired Even at your side; my ...
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“Perché” by Frances Gregg
Perché I am the possessor and the possessed I am of the unborn. My kind have not yet come up ...
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“The God” by H.D.
The God I. I asked of your face: is it dark, set beneath heavy locks, circled with stiff ivy-fruit, clear, ...
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“Elan Vital” by Sherard Vines
Elan Vital I lay in the tepid mud Grey-drab, bubbling here and there with steam, A cell Rebellious, derisive of ...
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“Synthesized Perfumes and Essences” by Marsden Hartley
Synthesized Perfumes and Essences Morning comes with such rapidity, purple plum hanging on sensuous boughs over my head, sweeping my ...
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“The Villain” by William H. Davies
The Villain While joy gave clouds the light of stars, That beamed where'er they looked; And calves and lambs had ...
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“Argyria” by Richard Aldington
Argyria O you, O you most fair, Swayer of reeds, whisperer Among the flowering rushes, You have hidden your hands ...
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“Clerk’s Song” by Sherard Vines
Clerk's Song After the office hours chime away And hurrying souls drift homeward, one by one The long shadows that ...
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“Portrait of Nancy Trevors” by Donald Evans
Portrait of Nancy Trevors They sat in her drawing-room amid easeful silence in tolerant enmity. The men were three, and ...
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“Moonlit Apples” by John Drinkwater
Moonlit Apples At the top of the house the apples are laid in rows, And the skylight lets the moonlight ...
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“Gloom” by F.S. Flint
Gloom I sat there in the dark of the room and of my mind thinking of men's treasons and bad ...
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“From the Balcony: Multitudes” by Edith Sitwell
From the Balcony: Multitudes Beneath the midnight skies, grown copper-cold, On titan-stairways like the world's great cause Unmeaning endlessness,—processions pause ...
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“Lalla Ram” by Marguerite Zorach
Lalla Ram The garden was warm, languid, The tiny shadows of nime trees softly fingered white balconies, The palms fell ...
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“Seven Seals” by D.H. Lawrence
Seven Seals Since this is the last night I keep you home, Come, I will consecrate you for the journey ...
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“The Letter” by Amy Lowell
The Letter Little cramped words scrawling all over the paper Like draggled fly's legs, What can you tell of the ...
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“Rag-time” by Osbert Sitwell
Rag-time The lamps glow here and there, then echo down The vast deserted vistas of the town :— Each light ...
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