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A collection of lyric poems offering impressionistic sketches of urban and seaside scenes that linger on mood more than plot. Short pieces move through theatre, cafés, promenades, and nocturnes to explore fleeting sensations of love, memory, and aesthetic perception. Sensuous details—scent, music, and light—are foregrounded, and symbolist-inflected techniques emphasize atmosphere and subjective response rather than narrative development. The arrangement reads as a series of portraits and reveries that shift subtly between observation and delicate psychological insight.
BENEATH the heaven of her brows’
Unclouded noon of peace, there lies
A leafy heaven of hazel boughs
In the seclusion of her eyes;
Her troubling eyes that cannot rest;
And there’s a little flame that dances
(A firefly in a grassy nest)
In the green circle of her glances;
A frolic Faun that must be hid,
Shyly, in some fantastic shade,
Where pity droops a tender lid
On laughter of itself afraid.