ACKNOWLEDGMENT
CONTENTS
SINGERIE
THE AVENUE
MANDOLINE
"COMEDY FOR MARIONETTES" (To I. C. P.)
FALSETTO SONG
EVENTAIL
FIFTEEN BUCOLIC POEMS I WHAT THE GOOSEGIRL SAID ABOUT THE DEAN
SEVEN NURSERY SONGS I OLD LADY FLY-AWAY O LD Lady Fly-Away Lost
PEDAGOGUES AND FLOWER-SHOWS I T ALL cranes with wooden bodices
PEDAGOGUES AND FLOWER-SHOWS II
SWITCHBACK
TRAMS
BANK HOLIDAY I T HE houses on a see-saw rush In the giddy sun's
BANK HOLIDAY II S EAS are roaring like a lion; with their wavy
SMALL TALK I
SMALL TALK II
DANSONS LA GIGUE
MESSALINA AT MARGATE
PEDAGOGUES
SONG FROM "THE QUEEN OF PALMYRA"
THE CHOIR-BOY RIDES ON THE SWITCHBACK
APRICOT JAM
STOPPING PLACE
PORTRAIT OF A BARMAID
MATERIALISM; OR, PASTOR TAKES THE RESTAURANT CAR FOR HEAVEN
THAIS IN HEAVEN
FOUR NOCTURNES I PROCESSIONS W ITHIN the long black avenues of
TREATS I FUNERALS B ENEATH umbrellas I can see Pink faces
ANTIC HAY
LULLABY
WATER MUSIC
THE WEB OF EROS
DROWNED SUNS
THE SPIDER
THE DRUNKARD
THE MOTHER I O UR dreams create the babes we bear; Our beauty
THE WOODEN PEGASUS
BY THE SAME AUTHOR CLOWNS’ HOUSES 3s. net “It affects me like devilled almonds.”—Land and Water. WHEELS Annual Anthology of Verse 6s. net “The vanguard of British Poetry.” The Saturday Review. OXFORD BASIL BLACKWELL
BY EDITH SITWELL Author of “Clowns’ Houses”; Editor of “Wheels” OXFORD BASIL BLACKWELL 1920 TO Helen Rootham Osbert Sitwell Sacheverell Sitwell AND W. T. Walton
