WHISPERS OF IMMORTALITY
Websterwas much possessed by deathAnd saw the skull beneath the skin;And breastless creatures under groundLeaned backward with a lipless grin.Daffodil bulbs instead of ballsStared from the sockets of the eyes!He knew that thought clings round dead limbsTightening its lusts and luxuries.Donne, I suppose, was such anotherWho found no substitute for senseTo seize and clutch and penetrate,Expert beyond experienceHe knew the anguish of the marrowThe ague of the skeleton;No contact possible to fleshAllayed the fever of the bone.
Websterwas much possessed by deathAnd saw the skull beneath the skin;And breastless creatures under groundLeaned backward with a lipless grin.Daffodil bulbs instead of ballsStared from the sockets of the eyes!He knew that thought clings round dead limbsTightening its lusts and luxuries.Donne, I suppose, was such anotherWho found no substitute for senseTo seize and clutch and penetrate,Expert beyond experienceHe knew the anguish of the marrowThe ague of the skeleton;No contact possible to fleshAllayed the fever of the bone.
Websterwas much possessed by deathAnd saw the skull beneath the skin;And breastless creatures under groundLeaned backward with a lipless grin.
Websterwas much possessed by death
And saw the skull beneath the skin;
And breastless creatures under ground
Leaned backward with a lipless grin.
Daffodil bulbs instead of ballsStared from the sockets of the eyes!He knew that thought clings round dead limbsTightening its lusts and luxuries.
Daffodil bulbs instead of balls
Stared from the sockets of the eyes!
He knew that thought clings round dead limbs
Tightening its lusts and luxuries.
Donne, I suppose, was such anotherWho found no substitute for senseTo seize and clutch and penetrate,Expert beyond experience
Donne, I suppose, was such another
Who found no substitute for sense
To seize and clutch and penetrate,
Expert beyond experience
He knew the anguish of the marrowThe ague of the skeleton;No contact possible to fleshAllayed the fever of the bone.
He knew the anguish of the marrow
The ague of the skeleton;
No contact possible to flesh
Allayed the fever of the bone.
Grishkin is nice; her Russian eyeIs underlined for emphasis;Uncorseted, her friendly bustGives promise of pneumatic bliss.The couched Brazilian jaguarCompels the scampering marmosetWith subtle effluence of cat;Grishkin has a maisonette:The sleek and sinuous jaguarDoes not in his arboreal gloomDistil so rank a feline smellAs Grishkin in a drawing-room.And even abstracter entitiesCircumambulate her charm;But our lot crawls between dry ribsTo keep its metaphysics warm.
Grishkin is nice; her Russian eyeIs underlined for emphasis;Uncorseted, her friendly bustGives promise of pneumatic bliss.The couched Brazilian jaguarCompels the scampering marmosetWith subtle effluence of cat;Grishkin has a maisonette:The sleek and sinuous jaguarDoes not in his arboreal gloomDistil so rank a feline smellAs Grishkin in a drawing-room.And even abstracter entitiesCircumambulate her charm;But our lot crawls between dry ribsTo keep its metaphysics warm.
Grishkin is nice; her Russian eyeIs underlined for emphasis;Uncorseted, her friendly bustGives promise of pneumatic bliss.
Grishkin is nice; her Russian eye
Is underlined for emphasis;
Uncorseted, her friendly bust
Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.
The couched Brazilian jaguarCompels the scampering marmosetWith subtle effluence of cat;Grishkin has a maisonette:
The couched Brazilian jaguar
Compels the scampering marmoset
With subtle effluence of cat;
Grishkin has a maisonette:
The sleek and sinuous jaguarDoes not in his arboreal gloomDistil so rank a feline smellAs Grishkin in a drawing-room.
The sleek and sinuous jaguar
Does not in his arboreal gloom
Distil so rank a feline smell
As Grishkin in a drawing-room.
And even abstracter entitiesCircumambulate her charm;But our lot crawls between dry ribsTo keep its metaphysics warm.
And even abstracter entities
Circumambulate her charm;
But our lot crawls between dry ribs
To keep its metaphysics warm.