 I grow old ... I grow old . . . 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...  Four Spirits: A Novel - Pagina 217di Sena Jeter Naslund - 2009 - 560 pagineAnteprima limitata - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1932 - 1028 pagine
...all into a pattern, grotesque, beautiful, meaningless, pregnant, intense, and startling all in one: I grow old, ... I grow old 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... | |
 | Harriet Monroe - 1915 - 380 pagine
...high sentence, but a bit obtuse ; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous — Almost, at times, the Fool. I grow old ... I grow old . . . I shall wear the bottoms of my trowsers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind ? Do I dare to eat a peach ? I shall wear white flannel... | |
 | Harriet Monroe - 1915 - 346 pagine
...high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous — Almost, at times, the Fool. I grow old ... I grow old . . . I shall wear the bottoms of my trowsers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind ? Do I dare to eat a peach ? I shall wear white flannel... | |
 | 1916 - 666 pagine
...under emotion,' the sort of emotion that settles down into the banality of a premature decrepitude : ' I grow old. ... I grow old . . . I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind V Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk... | |
 | Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1917 - 344 pagine
...turning toward the window, should say : " That is not it at all, That is not what I meant at all." I grow old ... I grow old . . . 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... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1920 - 72 pagine
...high sentence, but a bit obtuse ; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous — Almost, at times, the Fool. I grow old ... I grow old . . . 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... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - 1923 - 466 pagine
...high sentence, but a bit obtuse ; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous — Almost, at times, the Fool. I grow old ... I grow old ... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. But this volume is not compounded only of psychological involutions and the confused murmur of broken... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1925 - 448 pagine
...high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous — Almost, at times, the Fool. I grow old ... I grow old . . . 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... | |
 | Conrad Aiken - 1927 - 390 pagine
...high sentence, but a bit obtuse ; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous — Almost, at times, the Fool. I grow old ... I grow old . . . 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... | |
 | 1927 - 506 pagine
...flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid. I grow old .... I grow old . . . I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Almost immediately after which last comes, as a very lovely and astonishing surprise, the well-known... | |
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