Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.
LesbiaRichard Aldington
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Use no more speech now;
Let the silence spread gold hair above us,
Fold on delicate fold.
Use no more speech;
You had the ivory of my life to carve.…
And all the gods they dreamed and fabled of,
Hermes, and Thoth and Bêl are rotten now,
Rotten and dank.
Tenderness
Makes me eager as a little child to love you,
You morsel left half-cold on Cæsar’s plate.