Through gilded trellises

Through gilded trellises
Of the heat, Dolores,
Inez, Manuccia,
Isabel, Lucia,
Mock Time that flies.
"Lovely bird, will you stay and sing,
Flirting your sheened wing,-
Peck with your beak, and cling
To our balconies?"
They flirt their fans, flaunting
"O silence enchanting
As music!" Then slanting
Their eyes,
Like gilded or emerald grapes,
They make mantillas, capes,
Hiding their simian shapes.
Sighes
Each lady, "Our spadille
Is done."...Dance the quadrille
from Hell's towers to Seville;
Surprise
Their siesta," Dolores
Said. Through gilded trellises
Of the heat, spangles
Pelt down through the tangles
Of bell flowers; each dangles
Her castanets, shutters
Fall while the heat mutters,
With sounds like a mandoline
Or tinkled tambourine...
Ladies, Time dies!

by Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) , "Through gilded trellises", from Façade, published 1922

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Richard Meale (1932-) , "Through gilded trellises", 1949. [soprano and piano]
by William Walton (1902-1983) , "Through gilded trellises", published 1951, first performed 1923?6 [reciter and chamber ensemble], from Façade, no. ?
by William Walton (1902-1983) , "Through gilded trellises", published 1932 [soprano and piano], from Three songs, no. 2.

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