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His fist like a twisted snake - John Gould Fletcher "An Actor"

Breaking and spilling fiery cups - John Gould Fletcher "An Actor as a Dancing Girl"

Like loud and yawning laughter - John Gould Fletcher "City Lights"

On the sullen beach of the sky - John Gould Fletcher "The Clouds"

The pilgrimage of grey souls passing - John Gould Fletcher "Court Lady Standing Under a Plum Tree"

To the ash-strewn summit of death - John Gould Fletcher "Court Lady Standing Under a Plum Tree"

That shatter their stars of bloom - John Gould Fletcher "Court Lady Standing Under Cherry Tree"

My thoughts are willow branches already broken - John Gould Fletcher "Dead Thoughts"

Motionless at twilight - John Gould Fletcher "Dead Thoughts"

The torn lantern of my hope - John Gould Fletcher "Disappointment"

Bells which the breezes play - John Gould Fletcher "A Distant Song"

Towards an unseen day - John Gould Fletcher "A Distant Song"

Grasses strewn with delicate stars - John Gould Fletcher "The Endless Lament"

Scarlet threads of sorrow - John Gould Fletcher "The Endless Lament"

Its poor array of tattered flags - John Gould Fletcher "Evening Sky"

Torn between cloud and butterfly - John Gould Fletcher "The Fop"

In the midnight of his hope - John Gould Fletcher "The Future"

My thoughts are sparrows passing - John Gould Fletcher "Fugitive Thoughts"

That breaks in bubbles of gold - John Gould Fletcher "Fugitive Thoughts"

My soul is backwards blown - John Gould Fletcher "Grass"

With long cascades of laughter - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

In the tower of the winds - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Thin fluttering streamers of breeze - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Hugged close by the cool rhododendron - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Splintering into a million fragments - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

The trees splash the sky - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

A restless green rout of stars - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Swing their boughs about their stems - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Planes of light and shadow - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Opening fanlike to fall - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Darting along their green flickering fronds - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Hollow caverns of cool blue shadow - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Solemn arches in the afternoons - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

In terrace beyond terrace, pinnacle above pinnacle - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Cower together in dark valleys - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Enamelled domes tumble upon the grass - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Crashing in ruin quiet at last - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

The voices of the mad wild birds - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Silver spears slanting downwards - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

From pale river-pools of sky - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Till they enclose mighty circles - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Sway to the movement of hooded summits - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

In deep blue seas of air - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

A smooth dry carpet of velvet - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Stiffly ungracious to the wind - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Teetering on red-lacquered stems - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

The conflagrations of the sunset - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Flamboyant crenelations of glory - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

The voices of mermaids crying from the sea - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Gold fish far above the black arches - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Let the timid feet of dawn fly - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Temples and altars sunkindled for me - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Stirred by the silver oars of poems - John Gould Fletcher "The Heavenly Poetesses"

Like the wind's deep-muttering breath - John Gould Fletcher "Impromptu"

Mournful as thunder moving through - John Gould Fletcher "In Exile"

While earth is parched more near - John Gould Fletcher "In Exile"

Stabbed with the swords of the rain - John Gould Fletcher "Kiyonobu and Kiyomasu Contrasted"

Through dull years of bitter silence - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"

When thunderclouds ring the horizons - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"

One mad stray bold from the zenith - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"

Many bitter winters of defeat - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"

Down to the granite of patience - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"

Question them in anguish - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"

From your hostages to silence - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"

Over the million intricate threads - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"

Repaired through your anguish - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"

Bitter for remembrance of the healing - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"

Jingling tumult of white-hot rays - John Gould Fletcher "London Excursion"

A riddle made to break my heart - John Gould Fletcher "Masonubu -- Early"

Churned to flames by the sun - John Gould Fletcher "Mid-Summer Dusk"

Fluttering butterflies in the rain - John Gould Fletcher "Moods"

With faint drum-tones of thunder - John Gould Fletcher "Mutability"

Out of the crane-haunted mists - John Gould Fletcher "Mutability"

Scandal over full wine cups - John Gould Fletcher "A Night Festival"

Deceived by the jade petals - John Gould Fletcher "An Oiran and her Kamuso"

The dying vine can hold the strongest oak - John Gould Fletcher "The Old Love and the New"

A rosy glimmer of flame remembered - John Gould Fletcher "The Old Love and the New"

A harlequin of illusions - John Gould Fletcher "A Pedlar"

A word of flame and force - John Gould Fletcher "The Rock"

Scrawl on the walls of night - John Gould Fletcher "Sharaku Dreams"

Or you the masks for them - John Gould Fletcher "Sharaku Dreams"

Too shattered by pain for tears - John Gould Fletcher "Sharaku Dreams"

Their own infamy creating - John Gould Fletcher "Sharaku Dreams"

Pillars of the sky at rest - John Gould Fletcher "Snowy Mountains"

Palaces made for cloud - John Gould Fletcher "Snowy Mountains"

The toy-boxes time plays with - John Gould Fletcher "Toy-Boxes"

Like a wind-bewildered crane - John Gould Fletcher "Toyonobu. Exile's Return"

Ages of patient treachery - John Gould Fletcher "The Traitor"

The knowledge of his hour - John Gould Fletcher "The Traitor"

Who has taken sins and sorrows - John Gould Fletcher "The True Conqueror"

And whose deathless spirit leaps - John Gould Fletcher "The True Conqueror"

Where a shy lily half hides - John Gould Fletcher "Two Ladies Contrasted"

Dreaming of vermillion sunsets - John Gould Fletcher "A Woman Standing by a Gate with an Umbrella"

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