Richard Aldington. Interlude. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Interlude

By Richard Aldington


BLOW your tin squeals
On your reedy whistle.

How they come dancing,
White girls, lithe girls
In linked dance	5
From Attica!
Gay girls dancing in the frozen street,
Hair streaming, and white raiment
Flying,
Red lips that first were	10
Red in Ephesus.

Gone!
You—red-nose, piping by the Red Lion,
You?
You brought them!	15
Here, take my pennies,
“Mon semblable, mon frère!”