Music (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
IMUSIC, on the air's edge, rides alone,Plumed like empastured Caesars of the skyWith a god's helmet; now, in the gold ...
IMUSIC, on the air's edge, rides alone,Plumed like empastured Caesars of the skyWith a god's helmet; now, in the gold ...
ICOOK was a captain of the AdmiraltyWhen sea-captains had the evil eye,Or should have, what with beating krakens offAnd casting ...
IIN an old play-house, in an old play,In an old piece that has been done to death,We dance, kind ladies, ...
I. The King of CuckoozTHE King of Cuckooz ContreyHangs peaked above ArgierWith Janzaries and MarabuttsTo bid a sailor fear-With lantern-eyed ...
SCALY with poison, bright with flame,Great fungi steam beside the gate,Run tentacles through flagstone cracks,Or claw beyond, where meditateWet poplars ...
VENUS with rosy-cloven rumpAnd rings of straw-bright flying hairLooks in the glass that slaves are plyingNot for her own face ...
MY cure of souls, my cage of brutes,Go lick and learn at these my boots!When tainted highways tear a hole,I ...
GOOD roaring pistol-boys, brave lads of gold,Good roistering easy maids, blown cock-a-hoopOn floods of tavern-steam, I greet you! DrunkWith wild ...
AFTER all, you are my rather tedious hero;It is impossible (damn it!) to avoidLooking at you through keyholes.But come! At ...
IF all those tumbling babes of heaven,Plump cherubim with blown cheeks,Could vault in these warm skies, or leavenOur starry silent ...
RANKS of electroplated cubes, dwindling to glitters,Like the other pasture, the trigonometry of marble,Death's candy-bed. Stone caked on stone,Dry pyramids ...
TAKE your great light away, your music end;I'm off to feed myself as quick as I can.You're perfectly impossible to ...
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