manyforms

Updated: May 7, 2025

And they were dead. They did not know it. They did not know his hymns Were silence; and her limbs That had served love so well, Dust, and a filthy smell. The feeling that Aphrodite is leading them a merry chase through manyforms is characteristic of our ultra-modern poets, who anticipate at least one new love affair a year.

Elizabeth Atkins - The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years