BOOK I OUT OF THE FLAME
BOOK II SING PRAISES SATIRES
OUT OF THE FLAME
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
TWENTIETH-CENTURY HARLEQUINADE
In collaboration with Edith Sitwell
(BLACKWELL, Oxford)
THE WINSTONBURG LINE
Political Satires
(HENDERSON, Charing Cross Road)
COCK-ROBIN
IN PREPARATION
A BOOK OF CHARACTERS
Short Stories and Sketches
DISCURSIONS
Essays on Travel, Art and Life
The Author from the sculpture by Frank Dobson
The Author
from the sculpture by Frank Dobson
OUT OF THE FLAME
BY
OSBERT SITWELL
LONDON
GRANT RICHARDS LTD.
1923
Printed in Great Britain at
The Mayflower Press, Plymouth.
William Brendon & Son, Ltd.
CONTENTS
BOOK I
OUT OF THE FLAME
Two Mexican Pieces—
I. Song
II. Maxixe
Out of the Flame
Two Dances—
I. Country Dance
II. Fox Trot—When Solomon met the Queen of Sheba
Two Garden Pieces—
I. Neptune in Chains
II. Fountains
Parade
English Gothic
The Backward Child
Nursery Rhyme—The Rocking-Horse
Two Mythological Poems—
I. The Jealous Goddess
II. Bacchanalia
BOOK II
SING PRAISES
Explanation—Subtlety of the Serpent
De Luxe
Mrs. Freudenthal Consults the Witch of Endor
Night Thoughts
The War-horse Chants
A Touch of Nature
Youth at the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm
The Manner
The Open Door
Introducing
MalgrÉ Soi
Paradise Regained
Five Portraits and a Group—
I. The General's Wife Refuses
II. Aux Bords de la Mer
III. Giardino Pubblico
IV. Ultimate Judgment
V. An Old-Fashioned Sportsman
Group: English Tea-rooms
Sunday Afternoon
Corpse Day
My thanks are due to the Editors of The Nation, The Spectator, The Weekly Westminster, The English Review, Art and Letters, Form, The Dial, and Poetry (Chicago), for permission to reprint certain of the poems appearing in this volume.
