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Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me. Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.Īnd the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! I should have been a pair of ragged claws Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows? … Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streetsĪnd watched the smoke that rises from the pipes (But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!)Īrms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl. To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?Īnd I have known the arms already, known them all-Īrms that are braceleted and white and bare When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall, The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,Īnd when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin, I know the voices dying with a dying fallĪnd I have known the eyes already, known them all. I have measured out my life with coffee spoons Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, (They will say: “But how his arms and legs are thin!”)įor decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.įor I have known them all already, known them all: My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin. My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin, (They will say: “How his hair is growing thin!”) With a bald spot in the middle of my hair. To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?” That lift and drop a question on your plate To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet Īnd time for all the works and days of hands
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Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,Īnd seeing that it was a soft October night,Ĭurled once about the house, and fell asleep.įor the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
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Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys, Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains, Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening, The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes, The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, To lead you to an overwhelming question … Streets that follow like a tedious argument
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Of restless nights in one- night cheap hotelsĪnd sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The Queen apparently had a plaster cast made of Albert, which she slept next to after this death.When the evening is spread out against the sky He shared her workload and was her closest friend and advisor, not to mention the father of their nine children. His unexpected death was a huge blow for the Queen, who had married him for love and was also reliant on him for matters of state. In 1861, Prince Albert – who by then had become Prince Consort – died aged 42 of typhoid fever. After being asked by a foreign diplomat a question along the lines of: 'How has Britain become the most powerful nation on earth?', the Queen allegedly handed him a Bible and responded: 'Tell the Prince that this is the Secret of England's Greatness.' This imagined painting reflects prevailing Victorian attitudes, as well as a popular anecdote involving the Queen that was circulating in the 1850s. Painted by Thomas Jones Barker (1815–1882), Victoria is shown at Windsor Castle receiving an ambassador from East Africa (most likely based on Ali bin Nasr, governor of Mombasa), to whom she is presenting a Bible. Thomas Jones Barker (1815–1882) National Portrait Gallery, London 'The Secret of England's Greatness' (Queen Victoria presenting a Bible in the Audience Chamber at Windsor) Victoria spent her childhood at Kensington Palace, where she had a sheltered upbringing due to the imposed code of discipline named the 'Kensington System'. Here's a look at some of the many depictions of her on Art UK. It is likely that she regarded painting in the same way. A fiercely intelligent woman who acknowledged that her image was instrumental to her relationship with the public, some argued that she was the first royal to grasp the camera's potential power as a 'political weapon'. The age is also associated with puritanical ideals, industrialisation and arrogant imperialism, not to mention the technological advancement of photography. As a result, Queen Victoria was the most photographed and painted monarch to have ever lived (at that time). Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805–1873) (copy after) National Maritime MuseumĪ regal matriarch often imagined as an austere, dowdy and petite widower (she was only 4ft 11in), the 'Victorian' era has become synonymous to the personality and image of the Queen.