Title: Aquarium
Author: Harold Acton
Release date: March 25, 2019 [eBook #59125]
Most recently updated: February 20, 2022
Language: English
Credits: Produced by Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This
book was produced from images made available by the
HathiTrust Digital Library.)
First published in 1923.
All rights reserved.
Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner, Frome and London.
Part I | |
CURVES | |
PAGE | |
Aquarium | 9 |
A Day Will Come | 10 |
Cathedral Interior | 14 |
Young Sailor | 15 |
Nights | 16 |
i. Mimi at the Cabaret Vert | 16 |
ii. Malaguenas | 17 |
Confetti | 18 |
Night of Adolescence | 19 |
Conversazione of Musical Instruments | 20 |
Paradise Villas | 32 |
A Morality | 33 |
My House | 36 |
Sonnet | 37 |
Oh! what have I to do with Thee? | 38 |
Fox-Trot | 39 |
...... | 40 |
Escape | 41 |
Pink Night | 42 |
Hope | 43[6] |
Pastorale | 44 |
Bal Saturnien | 45 |
For a Viola-da-gamba | 46 |
Contrasts | 47 |
The Pensile Gardens of Babylon | 49 |
Part II | |
URBANITIES | |
Sabbath Morning Rain | 53 |
A Window Speaks | 54 |
Seven to Bed | 57 |
Town Typing Office | 58 |
Coiffeur Choréographique | 59 |
L’Impératrice des Pagodes | 60 |
Miss Fay the Trapezist | 62 |
Sotie | 63 |
Mr. Bedlam’s Sunday Breakfast | 64 |
Thanks are due to the Editors of the Spectator, New Witness, Oxford Chronicle and Eton Candle for permission to reprint certain of these poems.
(A vision of red-mouths, outthrust bellies in a leafy
créme-de-menthe tropic.)
[1] Bother those lick-spittles!
(Rêvons: c’est l’heure—Verlaine)
(To be sung by a Eunuch)
(To the sacred memory of Petronius)
To Edith Sitwell
[2] Kitchen-English for “Eau de Cologne.”
(The lion-huntress accounts for one of her rather more unprepossessing guests)
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been retained from the original.