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In Uncertainty to a Lady
I am not one of those who sip,
Like a quotidian bock,
Cheap idylls from a languid lip
Prepared to yawn or mock.
Like a quotidian bock,
Cheap idylls from a languid lip
Prepared to yawn or mock.
I wait the indubitable word,
The great Unconscious Cue.
Has it been spoken and unheard?
Spoken, perhaps, by you ...?
Fiction
Poetry
- A Little Memory
- Anniversaries
- Books And Thoughts
- By the Fire
- Complaint of a Poet Manque
- Crapulous Impression
- Darkness
- Doors Of The Temple
- In Uncertainty to a Lady
- Inspiration
- Italy
- L'Après-Midi D'un Faune
- Love Song
- Minoan Porcelain
- On the Bus
- Out of the Window
- Panic
- Poem
- Points and Lines
- Private Property
- Return from Business
- Revelation
- Scenes of the Mind
- Social Amenities
- Song of the Populars
- Stanzas
- Summer Stillness
- The Alien
- The Decameron
- The Defeat of Youth
- The Elms
- The Flowers
- The Life Theoretic
- The Louse-Hunters
- The Reef
- Topiary
- Valedictory
- Vision
- Waking
- Winter Dream
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