Complaint Of A Poet Manqu

A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)

We judge by appearance merely:

If I can’t think strangely, I can at least look queerly.

So I grew the hair so long on my head

That my mother wouldn’t know me,

Till a woman in a night-club said,

As I was passing by,

“Hullo, here comes Salome …”

I looked in the dirty gilt-edged glass,

And, oh Salome; there I was–

Positively jewelled, half a vampire,

With the soul in my eyes hanging dizzily

Like the gatherer of proverbial samphire

Over the brink of the crag of sense,

Looking down from perilous eminence

Into a gulf of windy night.

And there’s straw in my tempestuous hair,

And I’m not a poet: but never despair!

I’ll madly live the poems I shall never write.

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• The house where I was born (03) by Yves Bonnefoy by Poetry In English
• The house where I was born (02) by Yves Bonnefoy by Poetry In English
• The house where I was born (01) by Yves Bonnefoy by Poetry In English
• The Hawthorn Tree by Willa Cather by Poetry In English
• Street In Packingtown by Willa Sibert Cather by Poetry In English
• Spanish Johnny by Willa Sibert Cather by Poetry In English
• Poppies on Ludlow Castle by Willa Cather by Poetry In English
• Paradox by Willa Cather by Poetry In English
• London Roses by Willa Cather by Poetry In English
• Passer-By, These Are Words by Yves Bonnefoy by Poetry In English
• Arcadian Winter by Willa Cather by Poetry In English
• Once A Great Love by Yehuda Amichai by Yehuda Иехуда (Ludwig ) Amichai ‏יהודה עמיחי‏ Амихай (Pfeuffer)
• On Rabbi Kook’s Street by Yehuda Amichai by Yehuda Иехуда (Ludwig ) Amichai ‏יהודה עמיחי‏ Амихай (Pfeuffer)

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