Beauty is momentary in the mind — The fitful tracing of a portal ; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies ; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing. So gardens die, their meek breath scenting... Modern American Poetry - Pagina 258a cura di - 1921 - 406 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson - 1917 - 452 pagine
...Revealed Susanna and her shame. And then the simpering Byzantines, Fled, with a noise like tambourines. IV Beauty is momentary in the mind — The fitful tracing...bawdy strings Of those white elders; but, escaping, Left only Death's ironic scraping. Now, in its immortality, it plays On the clear viol of her memory,... | |
| William Stanley Braithwaite - 1918 - 356 pagine
...Susanna and her shame. And then, the simpering Byzantines, Fled, with a noise like tambourines. IV Beauty is momentary in the mind — The fitful tracing...bawdy strings Of those white elders; but, escaping, Left only Death's ironic scraping. Now, in its immortality, it plays On the clear viol of her memory,... | |
| Conrad Aiken - 1919 - 310 pagine
...waves Combing the white hair of the waves blown back When the wind blows the water white and black. Beauty is momentary in the mind, — The fitful tracing of a portal : But in the flesh it is immortal. And shook a most divine dance from their feet, That twinkled starlike, moved as swift, and fine, And... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer, Marianne Moore - 1919 - 532 pagine
...holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover. Beauty is momentary in the mind, — The fitful tracing of a portal: But in the ftesh it is immortal. And shook a most divine dance from their feet, That twinkled starlike, moved... | |
| Louis Untermeyer - 1921 - 462 pagine
...Revealed Susanna and her shame. And then, the simpering Byzantines Fled, with a noise like tambourines. IV Beauty is momentary in the mind — The fitful tracing...bawdy strings Of those white elders; but, escaping, Left only Death's ironic scraping. Now, in its immortality, it plays On the clear viol of her memory,... | |
| Conrad Aiken - 1922 - 378 pagine
...Revealed Susanna and her shame. And then the simpering Byzantines, Fled, with a noise like tambourines. IV Beauty is momentary in the mind— The fitful tracing...in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing. U 305 So gardens die, their meek breath scenting The cowl of Winter, done repenting. So maidens die,... | |
| Leonora Speyer, Conrad Aiken - 1923 - 144 pagine
...Revealed Susanna and her shame. And then the simpering Byzantines Fled, with a sound like tambourines. IV Beauty is momentary in the mind— The fitful tracing...bawdy strings Of those white elders; but, escaping, Left only Death's ironic scraping. Now in its immortality, it plays On the clear viol of her memory,... | |
| Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson - 1923 - 706 pagine
...Revealed Susanna and her shame. And then the simpering Byzantines, Fled, with a noise like tambourines. IV Beauty is momentary in the mind — The fitful tracing...bawdy strings Of those white elders; but, escaping, Left only Death's ironic scraping. Now, in its immortality, it plays On the clear viol of her memory,... | |
| Louis Untermeyer - 1925 - 666 pagine
...Was like a willow swept by rain. Anon, their lamps' uplifted flame Revealed Susanna and her shame. TV Beauty is momentary in' the mind — The fitful tracing...bawdy strings Of those white elders; but, escaping, Left only Death's ironic scraping. Now, in its immortality, it plays On the clear viol of her memory,... | |
| 1925 - 1186 pagine
...Revealed Susanna and her shame. And then, the simpering Byzantines Fled, with a noise like tambourines. IV Beauty is momentary" in the mind — The fitful tracing...die, to the auroral Celebration of a maiden's choral. Chopin Prelude 789 Susanna's music touched the bawdy strings Of those white elders; but, escaping,... | |
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