Victoria Sackville-west Black Poems

  • 1.
    Leopards on the gable-ends,
    Leopards on the painted stair,
    Stiff the blazoned shield they bear,
    Or and gules, a bend of vair,
    ...
  • 2.
    When little lights in little ports come out,
    Quivering down through water with the stars,
    And all the fishing fleet of slender spars
    Range at their moorings, veer with tide about;
    ...
  • 3.
    What time the meanest brick and stone
    Take on a beauty not their own,
    And past the flaw of builded wood
    Shines the intention whole and good,
    ...
  • 4.
    I saw within the wheelwrightâ??s shed
    The big round cartwheels, blue and red;
    A plough with blunted share;
    A blue tin jug; a broken chair;
    ...
Total 4 Black Poems by Victoria Sackville-west

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