BY
HAROLD ACTON

DUCKWORTH & CO.
3 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON

First published in 1923.
All rights reserved.
Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner, Frome and London.

CONTENTS

Part I
CURVES
PAGE
Aquarium[ 9]
A Day Will Come[ 10]
Cathedral Interior[ 14]
Young Sailor[ 15]
Nights[ 16]
i. Mimi at the Cabaret Vert[ 16]
ii. Malaguenas[ 17]
Confetti[ 18]
Night of Adolescence[ 19]
Conversazione of Musical Instruments[ 20]
Paradise Villas[ 32]
A Morality[ 33]
My House[ 36]
Sonnet[ 37]
Oh! what have I to do with Thee?[ 38]
Fox-Trot[ 39]
......[ 40]
Escape[ 41]
Pink Night[ 42]
Hope[ 43]
Pastorale[ 44]
Bal Saturnien[ 45]
For a Viola-da-gamba[ 46]
Contrasts[ 47]
The Pensile Gardens of Babylon[ 49]
Part II
URBANITIES
Sabbath Morning Rain[ 53]
A Window Speaks[ 54]
Seven to Bed[ 57]
Town Typing Office[ 58]
Coiffeur Choréographique[ 59]
L’Impératrice des Pagodes[ 60]
Miss Fay the Trapezist[ 62]
Sotie[ 63]
Mr. Bedlam’s Sunday Breakfast[ 64]