Дональд Сидни-Фрайер «Songs and Sonnets Atlantean: The Third Series»

CONTENTS

Foreword, by Terence McVicker

To a Dead City 15

Memorial 16

The Herdsman 17

Tropicality 18

Totem 19

Abandonment 21

Amaranth 22

Rapa-Nui 23

Pendant 24

A Game of Chess 25

The Chest from Otherwhere 31

Another Species of Epiphany 32

A Ballade of Prospero 33

The Reef of Coral 35

Discovery 36

The Bitch with Tits of Bronze 37

Codacil of Contradiction 43

As One Jaguar to Another

Or So You Say 47

The Warrior and the Jaguar 50

Well Met by Midnight 53

The Jaguar and the Astrologer 57

The Apprentice and the Jaguar 63

Quoctezu Bids Farewell 70

The Passing of an Astrologer 76

Cephalopod in Residence 85

Colossal Chambered Nautilus 86

Hippokampoi 87

As One Seahorse to Another

The Little Horses of the Ocean Sea 91

An Oldster Gives Advice 92

A Mating Dance by Sunlight 93

Labor and Deliverance 94

A Proper Mode of Life 96

A Ghostly Dance by Starlight 98

Dominium Atque Apotheosis 99

Hadrian and Antinous 101

Pan and Priapus 102

A Ship Sails Out to Sea 103

Barcarolle 104

On Reading Edmund Spenser Once Again 105

Nine Happy Goldfish 106

An Archaeologist Uncovers the Past 107

Macabre Arabesque 125

The Scallop Shell 126

Triolets du Jour 127

A Villanelle Not A La Mode 129

Item: Ariel Sings 131

Ancestral Memory Revived 133

The Scroll 134

To a Conch 135

Of Some Eternal Realm 136

Past, Present, Future 138

Demeure Exotique 139

The Fugitives 145

The Music of the Spheres 179

To Rinaldo for Clark Ashton Smith 180

Forevermore the Rose 181

Tableau Sous-marin 182

Predicament 183

Remonstration 184

Enlightenment 185

A Rendezvous with Pierrefonds 187

Rondeau of Winter 188

Rondeau of Summer 189

Pierrefonds, Poème en Pierre 190

A Ballade of Duality 197

Conundrum 199

Rondel of Time 200

Rondel of Space 201

The Ghost of a Dream 202

A Fanfare from Atlantis 203

Notes 207