The dam Bellona littered her eyeless offspring Kriegsopfer upon the pavements of Vienna Sparkling precipitate the spectral day involves the visionless obstacle This slow blind face pushing its virginal nonentity against the light Pure purposeless eremite of centripetal sentience Upon the carnose horologe of the ego the vibrant tendon index moves not since the black lightning desecrated the retinal altar Void and extinct this planet of the soul strains from the craving throat in static flight upslanting A downy youth's snout nozzling the sun drowned in dumfounded instinct Listen! illuminati of the coloured earth How this expressionless "thing" blows out damnation and concussive dark Upon a mouth-organ. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO A CHILD OF QUALITY, FIVE YEARS OLD. THE AUTHOR THAN FORTY by MATTHEW PRIOR THE THREE ENEMIES by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI TO THE PENDING YEAR by WALT WHITMAN ENTERTAINMENT by JOSEPH BEAUMONT TO A DISCIPLE OF WILLIAM MORRIS by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT DA CAPO by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER |