Poems 1918-21, Including Three Portraits and Four Cantos
And that was an anagram for Vittorio

Emanuele Re D’ Italia,

And the guards couldn’t stop them.

Old men with beautiful manners,

Sitting in the Row of a morning;

Walking on the Chelsea Embankment.

VIII

Ritratto

AND she said:

A

“You remember Mr. Lowell,

“He was your ambassador here?”

And I said: “That was before I arrived.”

And she said:

“He stomped into my bedroom....

(By that time she had got on to Browning.)

“ ... stomped into my bedroom....

“And said: ‘Do I,

“ ‘I ask you, Do I

“ ‘Care too much for society dinners?’


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