Vol. 2 No. 1 - Modernist Magazines Project
Vol. 2 No. 1 - Modernist Magazines Project
Vol. 2 No. 1 - Modernist Magazines Project
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
TWO POEMS<br />
CYNRIC MYTTON-DAVIES<br />
LEAVE TRAINS—VICTORIA STATION<br />
The Great Hall of Gehenna was filled with spirits :<br />
Moving shadows, amorphous, patternless,<br />
Passing hither and thither and vanishing<br />
Into dynamic lines of long perspective<br />
Streaming away into the night.<br />
Pools of topaz light hung, nimbus like,<br />
High up in the cube of swimming dusk,<br />
Casting a glow like phosphorescence on the night sea.<br />
They stood, shadows, wrapped in shadow : unexpectedly<br />
A legion of unspeaking, unmoving women,<br />
Faintly discernible : still as death ; heavy with joy :<br />
A congregation of the damned awaiting the doomed.<br />
Somewhere out in the night, dark lanthorned, Hadean,<br />
Acheron's train bore on their cherished shades.<br />
London : 29/47*40.