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Dyed with blood and dreams - Iris Tree "[The adored, wild, strange, irresistible]"

And cajole with tears of beryl - Iris Tree "[The adored, wild, strange, irresistible]"

Enamelled bridges arching from dream to dream - Iris Tree "[Ah! the spring, sudden, surprising]"

Garlands splashing over the eyes of satyrs - Iris Tree "[Ah! the spring, sudden, surprising]"

Poisoned with raptures in many hues - Iris Tree "[Ah! you, from the small high-walled acre]"

From the slim-cut decanters of death - Iris Tree "[Ah! you, from the small high-walled acre]"

In their last scorn of sorrow - Iris Tree "[Ah! you, from the small high-walled acre]"

Buffeted with bouquets and blinded with confetti - Iris Tree "[Ah! you, from the small high-walled acre]"

Among the crumbling arches of decay - Iris Tree "[Among the crumbling arches of decay]"

Painting dead carnivals upon a fan - Iris Tree "[Among the crumbling arches of decay]"

Mirrors flashed their argent memories - Iris Tree "[Among the crumbling arches of decay]"

Loud-spoken in the jargon of the day - Iris Tree "[Among the crumbling arches of decay]"

Glutted with gold and dust and empty state - Iris Tree "[And afterwards, when honour has made good]"

Of music played among the stars - Iris Tree "[As a nun's face from her black draperies]"

Mad musicians upon fretted harps - Iris Tree "[As in the silence the clear moonlight drips]"

Irised with pallors of an opal's heart - Iris Tree "[As in the silence the clear moonlight drips]"

A blanched moon full of fear - Iris Tree "Bahama Islands I"

Pilgrim souls that will not sleep - Iris Tree "Bahama Islands I"

Our minds are cheated by the clock - Iris Tree "[Be perfect--for I love thee more in thought]"

My hands part from the unriveted faith - Iris Tree "[Be perfect--for I love thee more in thought]"

A Harlequin of tragedies - Iris Tree "Black Velvet"

This kaleidoscope of roaring color - Iris Tree "[Blow upon blow they bruise the daylight wan]"

Chill ignoble ashes for despair to strew - Iris Tree "[Blow upon blow they bruise the daylight wan]"

Yield the keys of Beauty's gates - Iris Tree "[Blow upon blow they bruise the daylight wan]"

Yet wear a crown of hazy dream - Iris Tree "[The caravans of spring are in the town]"

Each grey street mourns - Iris Tree "[The caravans of spring are in the town]"

Time with ever-turning multiplying wheels - Iris Tree "The Complex Life"

A chemistry of subtle interfusion - Iris Tree "The Complex Life"

In its dial eternity is housed - Iris Tree "[The curtains are drawn as though it still were night]"

So along in the enormous dawn - Iris Tree "[The curtains are drawn as though it still were night]"

A cap and bells for Folly's coronation - Iris Tree "Flame"

A crown of curious stones - Iris Tree "Flame"

Tore my purple into rags and knelt - Iris Tree "Flame"

A moonstone hieroglyphed with secret letters - Iris Tree "Flame"

As I spill the ancient wine - Iris Tree "Flame"

Where your despot feet have led - Iris Tree "Flame"

A gutter down the white-hot streets of Hell - Iris Tree "Flame"

The woven cloth of wonder - Iris Tree "[From far away the lost adventures gleam]"

Flung me the apple of eternal laughter - Iris Tree "[From the fathomless depth of my boredom]"

Three musketeers of faithful following - Iris Tree "[Give me, O God, the power of laughter still]"

Throw my gauntlet at the feet of pride - Iris Tree "[Give me, O God, the power of laughter still]"

The singing hungers of the sea - Iris Tree "Holy Russia"

Beneath the painted mask of fiction - Iris Tree "Holy Russia"

And all the train of bitter ghosts adore - Iris Tree "Holy Russia"

Still wrangled for a crown that lay amid the dust - Iris Tree "Holy Russia"

Like tasselled grapes to Tantalus - Iris Tree "[How often, when the thought of suicide]"

Drowned within the lurid dregs - Iris Tree "[How often, when the thought of suicide]"

The drums of time beating against oblivion - Iris Tree "[How soundly sleepeth the fool]"

From the spreading tree of days - Iris Tree "[How soundly sleepeth the fool]"

And queens have bought with blood and beauty - Iris Tree "[I can but give thee unsubstantial things]"

Ivory spools with rare embroiderings - Iris Tree "[I can but give thee unsubstantial things]"

Passions writ in hieroglyphs of gold - Iris Tree "[I can but give thee unsubstantial things]"

Baffled fortune in some new disguise - Iris Tree "[I cannot think that you have gone away]"

Spectral Joy once murdered in a rage - Iris Tree "[I could explain]"

Have bartered diamonds for glass - Iris Tree "[I could explain]"

The ill-omened drum of dropping rain - Iris Tree "[I dread the beauty of approaching spring]"

Whose mad hands tear the sky - Iris Tree "[I dread the beauty of approaching spring]"

Shall lift my martyred spirit from the dust - Iris Tree "[I dread the beauty of approaching spring]"

Burning galaxy of buttercups - Iris Tree "[I dread the beauty of approaching spring]"

Plucking the feathers from the wings of peace - Iris Tree "[I dread the beauty of approaching spring]"

I the Queen of crowding vagabonds - Iris Tree "[I feel in me a manifold desire]"

Torn laces and broken swords - Iris Tree "[I feel in me a manifold desire]"

A crown of shining endurance - Iris Tree "[I feel in me a manifold desire]"

My own host and guest and ghost - Iris Tree "[I feel so much alone]"

Bussing with the gossip of dreams - Iris Tree "[I have no other friend but thee]"

Caging the sun in rusted prison bars - Iris Tree "[I know what happiness is]"

The water's murmuring wisdom - Iris Tree "[I know what happiness is]"

Every shy and cloistered sense - Iris Tree "[I know what happiness is]"

Crave the pale secrets of the moon - Iris Tree "[I know what happiness is]"

And grope for dangerous toys - Iris Tree "[I know what happiness is]"

That her dust is our garment - Iris Tree "[I know what happiness is]"

Her waters our priestess - Iris Tree "[I know what happiness is]"

I laid my heart on a stone - Iris Tree "[I laid my heart on a stone]"

Sweeter than ghostly music - Iris Tree "[I laid my heart on a stone]"

The gentle touch of dripping dew - Iris Tree "[I laid my heart on a stone]"

With doubts that will not let me rest - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"

Only the half-spoken promises of Heaven - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"

Some flame-red salamander pirouetting - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"

The dim psychic crystals of my soul - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"

Opalled with the changing colours of unrest - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"

Roaring in a wind of memories - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"

My soul is a sleeping gondola - Iris Tree "[I should like to say to the world]"

Lulled by a jester's mandolin - Iris Tree "[I should like to say to the world]"

Where murder creeps and whispers - Iris Tree "[I think myself the fool of tragedy]"

Playing a pantomime to spectres in the stalls - Iris Tree "[I think myself the fool of tragedy]"

Ghostly mirth and phantom hands applauding - Iris Tree "[I think myself the fool of tragedy]"

The fake grandeur of cardboard turrets - Iris Tree "[If I were what I would be]"

Launched upon the loneliness of time - Iris Tree "Islands"

Indolent ripple sighing at the keel - Iris Tree "Islands"

Though our fretted longings reel - Iris Tree "Islands"

Silver steps to our appointed star - Iris Tree "Islands"

The spires that pierce eternity - Iris Tree "Islands"

The eternal flame of laughter - Iris Tree "Lamp-Posts"

The gloom is radiant in a dance - Iris Tree "Lamp-Posts"

In a dance of yellow hopefulness - Iris Tree "Lamp-Posts"

Faery glitter in the streets of chance - Iris Tree "Lamp-Posts"

Dust upon the huddled corn - Iris Tree "[Like flocks of tired birds]"

Led by the violins of discontent - Iris Tree "[Like flocks of tired birds]"

Blue and yellow grapes for faery beggars - Iris Tree "[Lolling in snow, like kings in ermine coats]"

For ragged fancies to pluck and taste - Iris Tree "[Lolling in snow, like kings in ermine coats]"

Stolen from the ashen banquets of death - Iris Tree "[Lolling in snow, like kings in ermine coats]"

Those faces pain has marked - Iris Tree "London"

Underneath the feet forever dancing - Iris Tree "London"

Disorder from the couch of chaos - Iris Tree "London"

The laughter of the thrushes - Iris Tree "London"

Starving arms and strangling fingers - Iris Tree "London"

His glitter hidden in a ragged coat - Iris Tree "[London grows sad at evening]"

Dressed me in velvet dignities - Iris Tree "[Loneliness I love]"

Stirred from the golden quilt of memory - Iris Tree "[Long ago we walked together in a garden]"

Peace lay folded between our hands - Iris Tree "[Long ago we walked together in a garden]"

As a fly lies casketed in amber - Iris Tree "[Long hath the pen lain idle in my hand]"

The last juices from the sun's ripe fruit - Iris Tree "[Lulled are the dazzling colours of the day]"

Sterile as the arms of my desire - Iris Tree "[Lulled are the dazzling colours of the day]"

Flings her light despairing - Iris Tree "[Lulled are the dazzling colours of the day]"

Filled with rose-water and myrrh - Iris Tree "[Many things I'd find to charm you]"

Old liqueurs in leather kegs - Iris Tree "[Many things I'd find to charm you]"

Toys of tortoise-shell and jasper - Iris Tree "[Many things I'd find to charm you]"

Through a necklace of vile masks - Iris Tree "Moods II"

The blue arras of nightmare - Iris Tree "Moods II"

Kneeling in adoration to a dagger - Iris Tree "Moods III"

Coveting the drenched red peonies - Iris Tree "Moods III"

Pierced with knives of flame - Iris Tree "Moods III"

Omens mouthed by winds of twilight - Iris Tree "Moods III"

Lean across the precipice of time - Iris Tree "Moods III"

Carrying vast burdens over the crags of chaos - Iris Tree "Moods IV"

Waiting like a vast arch of quietness - Iris Tree "Moods IV"

Pierced by a sword of music - Iris Tree "Moods IV"

Your shadow along the solitary roads - Iris Tree "[My devotion kneels to you]"

A volume of pressed flowers - Iris Tree "[My devotion kneels to you]"

Pain has all the patience of a nun - Iris Tree "[My pain has all the patience of a nun]"

Tasting within the bitter dregs of spleen - Iris Tree "[My pain has all the patience of a nun]"

Looms where we have spun our fancies - Iris Tree "Nerves"

Trapezes that our passion frenzies - Iris Tree "Nerves"

Strange acrobats to catch them - Iris Tree "Nerves"

Tightening strings upon our spirit's fiddles - Iris Tree "Nerves"

Out of tune where music hungers - Iris Tree "Nerves"

Colours twinging on a prism's edges - Iris Tree "Nerves"

Trapped the sun's bright lion - Iris Tree "Nerves"

A poor bewildered clown - Iris Tree "Nerves"

The scarlet rhapsodies and beryl-cold sonatas - Iris Tree "[O faces that look so coldly at me]"

Waltzing with your marionettes - Iris Tree "[O faces that look so coldly at me]"

Spangling a secret radiance on adoring hands - Iris Tree "[Of all who died in silence far away]"

Held crosswise to the budding day - Iris Tree "[Of all who died in silence far away]"

Close to the dancing heels of the day - Iris Tree "[Oh canst thou not hear in my heart all its whispering fears]"

The wind's persuasive violins and bells - Iris Tree "[Oh canst thou not hear in my heart all its whispering fears]"

Through the bleak windows of frost - Iris Tree "[Oh canst thou not hear in my heart all its whispering fears]"

In the cerulean depths of slow oblivion - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"

Moth-winged Cupid painted on the air - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"

Thin flute music petaling the silence - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"

The fire that pillars up the stars - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"

Showering their crystals to the moon - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"

In the folly of rainbow dolphins - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"

In loneliness of prayer unlit by life - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"

The promise of Fate's rebound - Iris Tree "[Old woman forever sitting]"

Revenge of Time that waits within the clock - Iris Tree "[Old woman forever sitting]"

Blinking through the oldest tree of wisdom - Iris Tree "[Old woman forever sitting]"

Eyes that prick the darkness - Iris Tree "[Pity the slain that laid away their lives]"

And Sin that batters the door - Iris Tree "[Pity the slain that laid away their lives]"

Spendthrift of passion in love's bankruptcy - Iris Tree "[The scandal-monger after all is right]"

Meet our pity with a traitor's kiss - Iris Tree "[The scandal-monger after all is right]"

All that mob of furious accusation - Iris Tree "[The scandal-monger after all is right]"

Tugging at the moaning bells of death - Iris Tree "[Shall we be christened poets]"

And shut the fingers of wind upon the rushes - Iris Tree "[Shall we be christened poets]"

Tread out the ashes of midnight - Iris Tree "[Slowly the pale feet of morning]"

The smoke of fire-spangled passion - Iris Tree "[Slowly the pale feet of morning]"

Gashed with the daggers of street-lights - Iris Tree "[Slowly the pale feet of morning]"

Crushing the poisonous berries of sinister kisses - Iris Tree "[Slowly the pale feet of morning]"

Sweeps up the rags of our shadows - Iris Tree "[Slowly the pale feet of morning]"

Danced in a red smoke of dreams - Iris Tree "[Slowly the pale feet of morning]"

Spinning with spider-hands the miser's web - Iris Tree "Smoke"

Stands on flaming ramparts - Iris Tree "Smoke"

My face without the conquering light - Iris Tree "[Sometimes I look into the glass]"

Whining to the scent of darkness - Iris Tree "Streets"

Walks delicately as a stray spectral cat - Iris Tree "Streets"

The dust heap where our memories lie - Iris Tree "Streets"

Tarnished prisons lined with white and gold - Iris Tree "Streets"

Where starving souls are kept - Iris Tree "Streets"

Feeding upon each other's isolations - Iris Tree "Streets"

Through the crystal chandeliers of morning - Iris Tree "Streets"

Bathed in vitriol twilights - Iris Tree "Streets"

Cimmerian depths of mystery and sin - Iris Tree "Streets"

Penitent souls through haunted corridors - Iris Tree "Streets"

Stand before the gate of brass - Iris Tree "Streets"

No scarves of sleep and silence - Iris Tree "Streets"

The wild bells of lilies ringing - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

Star-reflected gardens walled with night - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

In parables and symbols of remorse - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

That jeer from out the wind-stirred tapestries - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

The watchman to deserted houses - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

Fits a mask of silver to the moon - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

Corpses from the crypts of memory - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

Opens the secret chambers of our hopes - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

Wreathing love with poppies and with ashes - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

Bring myriad lamps in clusters - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

Spill the wind of light into our gloom - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

Gathering the cold grey lilies of the stars - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

Blood of the rose and hyacinth - Iris Tree "[The sun is lord of life and colour]"

Priestess and poisoner she goes - Iris Tree "[The sun is lord of life and colour]"

Her silver flock of wandering souls - Iris Tree "[The sun is lord of life and colour]"

Her chant of wailing waters - Iris Tree "[The sun is lord of life and colour]"

Alleys to the moon - Iris Tree "[There are songs enough of love]"

Stale juices from the shrivelled fruit - Iris Tree "[There are songs enough of love]"

On loom of spaces measureless - Iris Tree "[There are songs enough of love]"

Selling their tarnished twilights - Iris Tree "Thoughts of London"

The racing of brown rabbits on the hill - Iris Tree "To My Mother"

Storms that rattle the bones of the forest - Iris Tree "[Tranquility stirred by a sudden spasm]"

Charred with the spattering of rockets - Iris Tree "[Tranquility stirred by a sudden spasm]"

Those that carry bags of dust - Iris Tree "The Undertone of the Volga Boat Song"

The mud gleams with malicious light - Iris Tree "[Washed at my feet by the curded foam of sluggish waves]"

All the echoed melodies of your soul - Iris Tree "[Washed at my feet by the curded foam of sluggish waves]"

The tiaraed brows of darkness - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"

From the green hush of twilight - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"

Where silence drips from the trees - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"

Where the ghosts blow by - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"

On lawns of powdered silver - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"

Drawn backward from the moon - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"

And omened bagpipe screaming - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"

Burn to a blue smoke of forgetting - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"

Our red ambitions burn - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"

The clamours knocking without pause - Iris Tree "[What words that move on wings"]

Where Folly is king of midnight - Iris Tree "[When at a masquerade I meet thee]"

The hope and fear in jugglery - Iris Tree "[When I am weary at the antic chance]"

Harlequin through curtained silence trips - Iris Tree "[When I am weary at the antic chance]"

Grew brilliant in the tinsel glare - Iris Tree "[Winding down the streets in wearied gaiety]"

The pallid glints of stolen light - Iris Tree "[Winding down the streets in wearied gaiety]"

Where lethe laps the wharf of sleeping streams - Iris Tree "[Winding down the streets in wearied gaiety]"

Time's ashen coverlet - Iris Tree "[Woods of brown gloom sombring with the hush of death]"

In rags of old desires - Iris Tree "[Woods of brown gloom sombring with the hush of death]"

Sing a blasphemous Te Deum - Iris Tree "[You pass as in a drugged delirium]"

Shutting our lips upon a jest - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: Midnight"

How they struggle in a mist of fire - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 1 A. M."

An army fierce upon its own destruction - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 1 A. M."

Tremendous in a coat of fire - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 1 A. M."

Amid the dust of vanished lives - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 3 A. M."

Fire walked in crimson armour - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 3 A. M."

And whispered omens flew like bats - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 3 A. M."

Among the silver foliage of the stars - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 3 A. M."

And the flamingo messengers will come - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 3 A. M."


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