A Tulip Garden
Guarded within the old red wall’s embrace,
Marshalled like soldiers in gay company,
The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry
Wheels out into the sunlight. What bold grace
Sets off their tunics, white with crimson lace!
Here are platoons of gold-frocked cavalry,
With scarlet sabres tossing in the eye
Of purple batteries, every gun in place.
Forward they come, with flaunting colours spread,
With torches burning, stepping out in time
To some quick, unheard march. Our ears are dead,
We cannot catch the tune. In pantomime
Parades that army. With our utmost powers
We hear the wind stream through a bed of flowers.
[End of original text.]
Notes
After Hearing a Waltz by Bartok:
Originally: After Hearing a Waltz by Bartók:
A Blockhead:
“There are non, ever. As a monk who prays” changed to:
“There are none, ever. As a monk who prays”
A Tale of Starvation:
“And he neither eat nor drank.”
changed to:
“And he neither ate nor drank.”
The Great Adventure of Max Breuck:
Stanza headings were originally Roman Numerals.
The Book of Hours of Sister Clotilde:
The following names are presented in this etext sans accents:
Marguérite, Angélique, Véronique, Franc,ois.
The following unconnected lines in the etext are presented sans accents:
The factory of Sèvres had lent
Strange wingéd dragons writhe about
And rich perfuméd smells
A faëry moonshine washing pale the crowds
Our eyes will close to undisturbéd rest.
And terror-wingéd steps. His heart began
On the stripéd ground
Some books by Amy Lowell:
Poetry:
A Critical Fable
* A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass (1912)
* Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (1914)
* Men, Women and Ghosts (1916)
Can Grande’s Castle (1918)
Pictures of the Floating World (1919)
Legends (1921)
What’s O’Clock (1925)
East Wind
Ballads For Sale
(In collaboration with Florence Ayscough)
Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated from the Chinese (1921)
Prose:
John Keats
Six French Poets: Studies in Contemporary Literature (1915)
Tendencies in Modern American Poetry (1917)