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d. It is an enchanting thing to wander through a city looking for its unrelated beauty, the beauty by which it captivates the sensuous sense of seeing. I have always loved aquariums, but for years I went to them and looked, and looked, at those swirling, shooting, looping patterns of fish, which always defied transcription to paper until I hit upon the "unrelated" method. The result is in "An Aquarium". I think the first thing which turned me in this direction was John Gould Fletcher's "London Excursion", in "Some Imagist Poets". I here record my thanks. For the substance of the poems--why, the poems are here. No one writing to-day can fail to be affected by the great war raging in Europe at this time. We are too near it to do more than touch upon it. But, obliquely, it is suggested in many of these poems, most notably those in the section, "Bronze Tablets". The Napoleonic Era is an epic subject, and waits a great epic poet. I have only been able to open a few windows upon it here and there. But the scene from the windows is authentic, and the watcher has used eyes, and ears, and heart, in watching. Amy Lowell July 10, 1916. Contents Figurines in Old Saxe Patterns Pickthorn Manor The Cremona Violin The Cross-Roads A Roxbury Garden 1777 Bronze Tablets The Fruit Shop Malmaison The Hammers Two Travellers in the Place Vendome War Pictures The Allies The Bombardment Lead Soldiers The Painter on Silk A Ballad of Footmen The Overgrown Pasture Reaping Off the Turnpike The Grocery Number 3 on the Docket Clocks Tick a Century Nightmare: A Tale for an Autumn Evening The Paper Windmill The Red Lacquer Music-Stand Spring Day The Dinner-Party Stravinsky's Three Pieces "Grotesques", for String Quartet Towns in Colour Red Slippers Thompson's Lunch Room--Grand Central Station An Opera House Afternoon Rain in State Street An Aquarium The two sea songs quoted in "The Hammers" are taken from 'Songs: Naval and Nautical, of the late Charles Dibdin', London, John Murray, 1841. The "Hanging Johnny" refrain, in "The Cremona Violin", is borrowed from the old, well-known chanty of that name. MEN, WOMEN AND GHOSTS FIGURINES IN OLD SAXE Patterns I walk down the garden paths, And
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