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 ...
LATE: a cold smear of sunlight bathes the room;The gilt lime of winter, a sun grown melancholy old,Streams in the ...
(To N.L.)THERE were strange riders once, came gusting downCloaked in dark furs, with faces grave and sweet,And white as air. ...
(To the etchings of Norman Lindsay)Now the statues lean over each to each, and sing,Gravely in warm plaster turning; the ...
"THESE are the floating berries of the night,They drop their harvest in dark alleys down,Softly far down on groves of ...
SOPHIE, in shocks of scarlet lace,Receives her usual embraceBeneath a hedge, behind a curtain,Or in the chambers of His Grace.Whether ...
I'LL kick your walls to bits, I'll die scratching a tunnel,If you'll give me a wall, if you'll give me ...
ADAM, because on the mind's roadsYour mouth is always in a hurry,Because you know odesAnd ways to make a curry,Because you fall ...
WHEN to those Venusbergs, thy breasts,By wars of love and moonlight batteries,My lips have stormed-O pout thy mouth above,Lean down ...
Thief of the moon, thou robber of old delight, Thy charms have stolen the star-gold, quenched the moon- Cold, cold ...
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