I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to... Poetry - Pagina 135a cura di - 1915Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| 1916 - 666 pagine
...rolled. Shall I part my hair behind V Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids...to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.' Here, surely, is the reduction to absurdity of that school of literary license which, beginning with... | |
| Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1917 - 344 pagine
...rolled. Shall I part my hair behind ? Do I dare to eat a peach ? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids...they will sing to me. I have seen them riding seaward in the waves, Combing the white waves blown back When the wind blows the water white and black. We... | |
| Harriet Monroe - 1926 - 326 pagine
...poet's sharp and wounding edge of humor, but also by the blinding flame of beauty perceived or imagined. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think they will sing to me. I have seen them riding seaward on the waves, Combing the white hair of the waves... | |
| Harriet Monroe - 1926 - 328 pagine
...poet's sharp and wounding edge of humor, but also by the blinding flame of beauty perceived or imagined. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think they will sing to me. I have seen them riding seaward on the waves, Combing the white hair of the waves... | |
| Bonnie Kime Scott - 1996 - 376 pagine
...essentially maternal, or visionary, seascape. But in the seascape he lacks belief and the power to connect. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. So all he does, until too late, is linger ... in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with... | |
| Bonnie Kime Scott - 1996 - 376 pagine
...essentially maternal, or visionary, seascape. But in the seascape he lacks belief and the power to connect. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. So all he does, until too late, is linger ... in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with... | |
| Harvey Seymour Gross, Robert McDowell - 1996 - 362 pagine
...farewell. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids...to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. If anything, Stevens achieves greater subtlety in his exact iambics than Eliot in his more elastic... | |
| Stanley E. Porter - 1996 - 322 pagine
...Prufrock' says wistfully of 'the creatures in the sea', of whose existence Barclay is similarly aware: I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. In The Paper Men there is no suggestion that the creatures of the sea are unwilling to sing to Barclay;... | |
| Tim Powers - 2007 - 388 pagine
...get the renewal, / don't get a rebirth. I have heard the candy-colored clowns they call the sandmen singing each to each — I do not think that they will sing to me. Cinnamon tears were still running down his slack cheeks, and his hands were still trembling, but, when... | |
| Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1996 - 476 pagine
...wear the bottoms of my trowsers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I will wear white flannel trowsers, and walk upon the beach....to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. [12-5] I have seen them riding seaward on the waves, Combing the white hair of the waves blown back... | |
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