I went off with my hands in my torn coat pockets; my overcoat too was

White Ophelia floats like a great lily ;Floats very slowly, lying in her long veils…– In the far-off woods you can hear them sound the mort.For more than a thousand years sad OpheliaHas passed, a white phantom, down the long black river.For more than a thousand years her sweet madnessHas murmured its ballad to the…

The lean, the devil’s paladinsThe skeletons of Saladins.Sir Beelzebub pulls by the scruffHis little black puppets who grin at the sky,And with a backhander in the head like a kick,Makes them dance, dance, to an old Carol-tune!And the puppets, shaken about, entwine their thin arms:Their breasts pierced with light, like black organ-pipesWhich once gentle ladies…

Flutters among the currant bushes.So that our bloods may laugh in our veins,See the vines tangling themselves.The sky is as pretty as an angel,The azure and the wave commune.I go out. If a sunbeam wounds meI shall succumb on the moss.Being patient and being boredAre too simple. To the devil with my cares.I want dramatic…

Look at wild Bitter rolling from the mountain tops!Let us reach, like good pilgrims, green-pillared Absinthe…Myself: No more of these landscapes.What is drunkenness, friends?I had soon – rather, even – rot in the pond,beneath the horrible scum, near the floating driftwood.

A, black belt, hairy with burst flies,Bumbling and buzzing over stinking cruelties,Pits of night; E, candour of sand pavilions,High glacial spears, white kings, trembling QueenAnne’s lace;I, bloody spittle, laughter dribbling from a faceIn wild denial or in anger, vermilions;U,…divine movement of viridian seas,Peace of pastures animal-strewn, peace of calm linesDrawn on foreheads worn with heavy…

Were shouting out loud, in the middle of town:‘Oh, my friends… I wanter her to be queen! ‘‘I want to be a queen! ‘She kept on laughing and trembling,While he talked to his friends about revelations,And tribulations at an end.They laughed and they leaned close to one another.And, of course, they were royal…All morning long,…