Perception (Peter Courtney Quennell Poems)
While I have vision, while the glowing-bodied,Drunken with light, untroubled clouds, with all this cold sphered sky,Are flushed above trees ...
While I have vision, while the glowing-bodied,Drunken with light, untroubled clouds, with all this cold sphered sky,Are flushed above trees ...
As wind-drowned scents that bring to other hillsDisquieting memories of silences,Broad silences beyond the memory;As feathered swaying seeds, as wings ...
So she became a bird, and bird-like dancedOn a long sloe-bough, treading the silver blossomWith a bird's lovely feet;And shaken ...
See, I have bent thee by thy saffron hair --O most strange masker--Towards my face, thy face so full of eyes --O ...
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