Chronology Entry
Year
1918
Text
Stevens, Wallace. Le monocle de mon oncle. In : Others ; vol. 5, no 1 (Dec. 1918).
http://dl.lib.brown.edu/pdfs/1309273668888629.pdf.
III
Is it for nothing, then, that old Chinese
Sat tittivating by their mountain pools
Or in the Yangtse studied out their beards?
I shall not play the flat historic scale.
You know how Utamaro's beauties sought
The end of love in their all-speaking braids.
You know the mountainous coiffures of Bath.
Alas! Have all the barbers lived in vain
That not one curl in nature has survived?
Why, without pity on these studious ghosts,
Do you come dripping in your hair from sleep?
http://dl.lib.brown.edu/pdfs/1309273668888629.pdf.
III
Is it for nothing, then, that old Chinese
Sat tittivating by their mountain pools
Or in the Yangtse studied out their beards?
I shall not play the flat historic scale.
You know how Utamaro's beauties sought
The end of love in their all-speaking braids.
You know the mountainous coiffures of Bath.
Alas! Have all the barbers lived in vain
That not one curl in nature has survived?
Why, without pity on these studious ghosts,
Do you come dripping in your hair from sleep?
Mentioned People (1)
Stevens, Wallace
(Reading, Penn. 1879-1955 Hartford, Conn.) : Dichter, Schriftsteller, Dramatiker, Anwalt
Subjects
Literature : Occident : United States of America