A Book of Winter by Sitwell, Edith -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Contents The Godless Month. Lady Murasaki. Translated from the Japanese by Arthur Waley The Treasures. The Book of Job Li Fu-jËn. Emperor Wu-Ti (157-87). Translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley Winter Night. Emperor Chien Wên-Ti (6th century). Translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley Time’s Whiter Series. John Dryden My Love is Slaine. John Donne On Sailing into the Ice. Dithmar Blefkins The Double Rock. Henry King (1592-1669) To His Lute. Sir Thomas Wyatt Sonnet. Lord Herbert of Cherbury The Northern Lights. Samuel Hearne Meteors. Maupertius Winter Morning. Arthur Rimbaud. Translated from the French by Helen Rootham Winter Sunset: Winter Dawn. Edgar Allan Poe The Seasons Alter. William Shakespeare The Sick Rose. William Blake Winter The Huntsman. Osbert Sitwell Of The Winter Earth. Sir Thomas Browne Our Longest Sun. Sir Thomas Browne Games. Robert Burton With Feather Litter of the Cold. Sacheverell Sitwell So, We’ll go no More A-roving. Lord Byron of the Snow. F. Martens D’anne Qui Luy Jecta de la Neige. Clément Marot The White Light:

I. Arthur Rimbaud II. Sainte Thérè se d’Avila

Le Vierge, Le Vivace, Et Le Bel Aujourd’hui. Stéphane Mallarmé Soft Snow. William Blake Blacke is the Beauty of the Brightest day. Christopher Marlowe Forchristmas Day

I. Of Christ and the Rose. St. Bernard II. My Most. My Most. O My Lost! José Garcia Villa III. The Burning Babe. Robert Southwell IV. Ah My Dere. Anon. (15 th century) V. I Sing of a Maiden. Anon. (15 th century) VI. Adam Lay I-Bowyndyn. Anon. (15 th century) VII. Haylle, Comely and Clene. Anon. (15 th century) VIII. Veni, Coronaberis. Lambeth MS. (c. 1430) IX. Of a Rose, A Lovely Rose. Anon. X. Al The Meryere. Anon.

Two Hymns to the Blessed Virgin I. O Mooder Mayde. Geoffrey Chaucer

A Litany. Phineas Fletcher Lachrymae. David Gascoyne Aire and Angels. John Donne A SONG FROM A BOOKE OF AYRES. Thomas Campion A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day: Being The Shortest Day. John Donne In the City

I. Les Sept Vieillards. Charles Baudelaire II. Under the Fog. E. S. III. Tom O’ Bedlam. Anon. IV. The Chimney Sweeper— I. William Blake V. The Chimney Sweeper— II. William Blake VI. Hot Cake. Shu Hsi (c. A.D. 265-306). Translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley VII. Of Flower-Shops in Winter: Peking. Osbert Sitwell

On The Death of Flowers. Paracelsus. Book II Longing in Winter. Seneca. Translated by Thomas Lodge The Flowering Flame. From Hachi No Ki, by Seami. Translated by Arthur Waley. No Plays of Japan By The Fire

I. To Larr. Robert Herrick II. Winter Night. Arthur Rimbaud. Translated by Helen Rootham III. Upon Julia’s Voice. Robert Herrick IV. Young Woman. Geoffrey Chaucer V. Old Woman. James Joyce VI. Of Friendship. Jeremy Taylor VII. Of The Seasons of his Mercies. John Donne

The Companions by the Fire

I. Plant and Animal. Lorenz Oken II. The Cat. Christopher Smart

I. To his Honoured Kinsman, Sir William Soame. Robert Herrick II. An Apparition. John Aubrey III. The Laird Bocconi. John Aubrey

The Spirits on The Stairs. John Aubrey The Courteous Spirits. Sir Thomas Browne A Digression of the Nature of Spirits, Bad Angels, or Devils. Robert Burton The Drum: The Narrative of the Drummer of Tedworth. E. S. Of The Fairies

I. Queene Mab. William Shakespeare II. A Song of Robin Goodfellow. William Shakespeare III. The Jackman’s Song. Ben Jonson

Of The Absence of Glo-Wormes. Francis Bacon Night— I. Thomas de Quincey The Apparition. William Blake Night — II. William Blake The Terrible Stars. Pliny. Translated by Philemon Holland Of A Death in Winter:

I. Gerard Manley Hopkins II. John Donne

Sonnet of Black Beauty. Lord Herbert of Cherbury At A Time of Darkness

I. Saint Catherine of Siena II. A Prayer For Those Who Weep For The World. Léon Bloy III. Léon Bloy IV. The Divine Darkness. Dionysius the Aeropagite. Translated by C. E. Rolt

Of Crystal And Icicles. Sir Thomas Browne The Hat Given To The Poet BY LI-CHIEN (died A.D. 821). Po Chü -i. Translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley SONG. William Shakespeare? John Fletcher? Wild Weather. John Dryden Horus. Gérard de Nerval Two Letters:

After The Flood. Arthur Rimbaud. Translated by Helen Rootham Footnotes Dedication Imprint