Potential Titles: Harold Acton

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Ankleted with yawning fire - Harold Acton "After"

Eight days without a sun - Harold Acton "As Dmitri Karamazoff sang on the way to Chaos"

Monstrous blares of time - Harold Acton "As Dmitri Karamazoff sang on the way to Chaos"

Blue witness of the Second Empire - Harold Acton "As Dmitri Karamazoff sang on the way to Chaos"

Pours a perpetual electric day - Harold Acton "As Dmitri Karamazoff sang on the way to Chaos"

Which was a sluice of molten gold - Harold Acton "As Dmitri Karamazoff sang on the way to Chaos"

Some stray angel with pink sugar wings - Harold Acton "As Dmitri Karamazoff sang on the way to Chaos"

And starry eyes on lattice fixed - Harold Acton "Capriccio Espagnol"

Inhaled from scorching sky - Harold Acton "Capriccio Espagnol"

Whose tainted glitters dazzle - Harold Acton "Capriccio Espagnol"

Austere as faded fire - Harold Acton "Capriccio Espagnol"

Winged abandoned musics - Harold Acton "Capriccio Espagnol"

Expired like bruised sweet herbs - Harold Acton "Capriccio Espagnol"

An ashen cup of neutral air - Harold Acton "Cold Joints"

Black specks of surly rooks - Harold Acton "Cold Joints"

The terrible music of the slipping hours - Harold Acton "Cold Joints"

Grey tranquilities of mental judgment - Harold Acton "Cold Joints"

Tough-grained calamities - Harold Acton "Cold Joints"

Calmly I rise with broken threads - Harold Acton "Conversations and Crumbling"

As if the nomad camels would return - Harold Acton "Conversations and Crumbling"

As if the burly lion left his lair - Harold Acton "Conversations and Crumbling"

Spun like yarn across the copper sun - Harold Acton "Discoveries"

Where the autumn grieves - Harold Acton "Discoveries"

Sheer vividness of solitude - Harold Acton "Discoveries"

Merged icebergs twinkling - Harold Acton "Discoveries"

Dark red circles filled with dust - Harold Acton "Green grow the Rushes, O"

Stunned with muted symphonies - Harold Acton "Green grow the Rushes, O"

A wedge of thoughtful cranes - Harold Acton "Greenness Unsecreted"

From desolations and eternal rains - Harold Acton "Greenness Unsecreted"

My misery dropped golden tears - Harold Acton "Greenness Unsecreted"

Amber wind mellowed to milk - Harold Acton "Greenness Unsecreted"

Still chased his jet-black butterflies - Harold Acton "Greenness Unsecreted"

And crack the sky with laughter - Harold Acton "Hilarity"

Like peacocks in abandoned palaces - Harold Acton "Hilarity"

Sharp and melancholy discords - Harold Acton "Hilarity"

Ring and rinse like lightning - Harold Acton "Hilarity"

The viol's pallid amber notes - Harold Acton "Hilarity"

Steer toward the placid stars - Harold Acton "Hilarity"

Glowing forms in silk embroideries - Harold Acton "Hilarity"

Like shadows gripping at realities - Harold Acton "Hilarity"

Our wanton mirth has frozen - Harold Acton "Hilarity"

Snap, like glass, for sheer despair - Harold Acton "In the Month of Athyr"

Wrested from these crevices a home - Harold Acton "In the Month of Athyr"

As in a foam of centuries - Harold Acton "In the Month of Athyr"

A game of dice with mental clouds - Harold Acton "In the Train de Luxe"

Eternal teas and afternoons - Harold Acton "In the Train de Luxe"

Lurk within the forests of the mind - Harold Acton "In the Train de Luxe"

Pavilioned on hills of chastity - Harold Acton "In the Train de Luxe"

And held the insect world in fief - Harold Acton "The Investiture of a Spinster Hob-Goblin"

Bathed in bubbles of the moon - Harold Acton "The Investiture of a Spinster Hob-Goblin"

Swinging upon Time's parachute - Harold Acton "Invocation"

Half-forgotten nightmare-pyres - Harold Acton "Invocation"

The sloping hills of myrrh - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

With tender anise overweighed - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

This peacock-throated night - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

Faint stunned strands of light - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

His gathered hounds bay gloom - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

Aphrodite with unbraided hair - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

Tragic thorn-pierced feet - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

Would melt her body into song - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

Manacled in misery - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

Sleep on couch of twisted gold - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

Drooping eyes of jasmine-flowers - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

The Muses chant their starry music - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

Painted insects floating motionless - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

Your blistered heart that speaks - Harold Acton "Old Woman"

Colour fluid as the South - Harold Acton "Old Woman"

The noise of dead men's bones - Harold Acton "On the Theme of Ophelia's Madness"

Sad subterranean murmurs - Harold Acton "On the Theme of Ophelia's Madness"

Murmurs drowned in sea-weed - Harold Acton "On the Theme of Ophelia's Madness"

Till slothful Charon in his barge rowed by - Harold Acton "On the Theme of Ophelia's Madness"

The quick explosions in his soul - Harold Acton "The Prodigal Son"

Along the corridors of memory - Harold Acton "The Prodigal Son"

To play the role of Tantalus - Harold Acton "The Prodigal Son"

A young leopard prancing from the skies - Harold Acton "The Prodigal Son"

Silken harlots, velvet wine - Harold Acton "The Prodigal Son"

Raven-feathers in the moon's reflex - Harold Acton "These Consolations"

Cast off a whittling dust - Harold Acton "Trepak"

Crackled like a yawn of fire - Harold Acton "Trepak"

His poor thin thread of voice - Harold Acton "Trepak"

Sprayed with broken light - Harold Acton "Trepak"

The wedge-shaped engines of the sun - Harold Acton "Ventilation"

Split as flowers spun of glass - Harold Acton "Ventilation"

Invectives of the wind - Harold Acton "Ventilation"

Heard the lips of silence utter some apocalypse - Harold Acton "Ventilation"

In prim polar silence - Harold Acton "Werther-Introspection"

The stags and does may frolic - Harold Acton "Werther-Introspection"

And leap beyond the stars - Harold Acton "Werther-Introspection"

Coax a courteous isolated tear - Harold Acton "Werther-Introspection"

Phoenix with her sycophants - Harold Acton "When Frigates from Long Voyages ..."

Liquid amber for the indolent crocodile - Harold Acton "When Frigates from Long Voyages ..."

Strange garrisons of emerald-mailed chameleons - Harold Acton "When Frigates from Long Voyages ..."

No longer blocked in patterns - Harold Acton "Words"

Crack their wind-swift fingers - Harold Acton "Words"

Stumble into tragedies - Harold Acton "Words"


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