Rose Castles (Sitwell, set by W. Walton) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 Rose Castles
 Those bustles
 Beneath parasols seen!
 Fat blondine pearls
 Rondine curls
 Seem Banncrols sheen
 The brave tartan
 Waves' Spartan
 Domes (Crystal Palaces)
 Where like fallacies
 Die the calices
 Of the water-flowers green.
 Said the Dean
 To the Queen,
 On the tartan wave seen:
 "Each chilly
 White lily
 Has her own crinoline
 And the seraphs recline
 On divans divine
 In a smooth seventh heaven of
 polished pitch-pine."
 Castellated.
 Related
 To castles the waves lean
 Balmoral-like;
 They quarrel, strike
 (As round as a rondine)
 With sharp towers
 The water-flowers
 And, floating between,
 Each chatelain
 In the battle slain -
 Laid low by the Ondine.

Input by Dan Eggleston

Authorship

Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)

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William Walton (1902-1983)

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