Pretty Words (Elinor Wylie Poems)
Poets make pets of pretty, docile words: I love smooth words, like gold-enamelled fish Which circle slowly with a silken ...
Poets make pets of pretty, docile words: I love smooth words, like gold-enamelled fish Which circle slowly with a silken ...
The icicles wreathing On trees in festoon Swing, swayed to our breathing: They're made of the moon. She's a pale, ...
Avoid the reeking herd, Shun the polluted flock, Live like that stoic bird, The eagle of the rock. The huddled ...
The garden's full of scented wallflowers, And, save that these stir faintly, nothing stirs; Only a distant bell in hollow ...
1 When the world turns completely upside down You say we'll emigrate to the Eastern Shore Aboard a river-boat from ...
When against earth a wooden heel Clicks as loud as stone on steel, When stone turns flour instead of flakes, ...
The rain's cold grains are silver-gray Sharp as golden sands, A bell is clanging, people sway Hanging by their hands. ...
You are a rose, but set with sharpest spine; You are a pretty bird that pecks at me; You are ...
Once upon a time I heard That the flying moon was a Phoenix bird; Thus she sails through windy skies, ...
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