Poet Dame Edith Sitwell

Dame Edith Sitwell

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Dame Edith Sitwell Long Poems

  • 1.
    Lovely Semiramis
    Closes her slanting eyes:
    Dead is she long ago.
    From her fan, sliding slow,
    ...
  • 2.
    Came the great Popinjay
    Smelling his nosegay:
    In cages like grots
    The birds sang gavottes.
    ...
  • 3.
    Bells of gray crystal
    Break on each bough-
    The swans' breath will mist all
    The cold airs now.
    ...
Total 3 Long Poems by Dame Edith Sitwell

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Her Name Liberty
 by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

I thought to do a deed of chivalry,
An act of worth, which haply in her sight
Who was my mistress should recorded be
And of the nations. And, when thus the fight
Faltered and men once bold with faces white
Turned this and that way in excuse to flee,
I only stood, and by the foeman's might
Was overborne and mangled cruelly.
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