Front matter
Reading edition
TWENTIETH-CENTURY HARLEQUINADE In collaboration with Edith Sitwell (BLACKWELL, Oxford)
THE WINSTONBURG LINE Political Satires (HENDERSON, Charing Cross Road)
COCK-ROBIN
IN PREPARATION
A BOOK OF CHARACTERS Short Stories and Sketches
DISCURSIONS Essays on Travel, Art and Life
The Author from the sculpture by Frank Dobson
OUT OF THE FLAME
BY
OSBERT SITWELL
LONDON GRANT RICHARDS LTD. 1923
Printed in Great Britain at The Mayflower Press, Plymouth. William Brendon & Son, Ltd.
CONTENTS
BOOK I
OUT OF THE FLAME
Two Mexican Pieces— I. Song II. Maxixe
Out of the Flame
Two Dances— I. Country Dance II. Fox Trot—When Solomon met the Queen of Sheba
Two Garden Pieces— I. Neptune in Chains II. Fountains
Parade
English Gothic
The Backward Child
Nursery Rhyme—The Rocking-Horse
Two Mythological Poems— I. The Jealous Goddess II. Bacchanalia
BOOK II
SING PRAISES
Explanation—Subtlety of the Serpent
De Luxe
Mrs. Freudenthal Consults the Witch of Endor
Night Thoughts
The War-horse Chants
A Touch of Nature
Youth at the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm
The Manner
The Open Door
Introducing
Malgré Soi
Paradise Regained
Five Portraits and a Group— I. The General's Wife Refuses II. Aux Bords de la Mer III. Giardino Pubblico IV. Ultimate Judgment V. An Old-Fashioned Sportsman Group: English Tea-rooms
Sunday Afternoon
Corpse Day
My thanks are due to the Editors of The Nation, The Spectator, The Weekly Westminster, The English Review, Art and Letters, Form, The Dial, and Poetry (Chicago), for permission to reprint certain of the poems appearing in this volume.