<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360260" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Portrait Of A Barmaid</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Metallic waves of people jar<br>Through crackling green toward the bar</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where on the tables chattering-white<br>The sharp drinks quarrel with the light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those coloured muslin blinds the smiles,<br>Shroud wooden faces in their wiles — </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes they splash like water (you<br>Yourself reflected in their hue).</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The conversation loud and bright<br>Seems spinal bars of shunting light</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In firework-spurting greenery.<br>O complicate machinery</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For building Babel, iron crane<br>Beneath your hair, that blue-ribbed mane</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In noise and murder like the sea<br>Without its mutability!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Outside the bar where jangling heat<br>Seems out of tune and off the beat — </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A concertina's glycerine<br>Exudes, and mirrors in the green</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints<br>Of tentative and half-soiled tints.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dame+Edith+Louisa+Sitwell">Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360260" data-title="Portrait Of A Barmaid de Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell" data-description="Metallic waves of people jar Through crackling green toward the bar Where on the tables chattering-white The sharp drinks quarrel with the light. Those coloured muslin blinds the smiles, Shroud wooden faces in their wiles — Sometimes they sp..."></div> </div> </div>

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