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Arthur William Symons (Артур Саймонс (Симонс))


The Andante of Snakes


They weave a slow andante as in sleep,
Scaled yellow, swampy black, plague-spotted white;
With blue and lidless eyes at watch they keep
A treachery of silence; infinite

Ancestral angers brood in these dull eyes
Where the long-lineaged venom of the snake
Meditates evil; woven intricacies
Of Oriental arabesque awake,

Unfold, expand, contract, and raise and sway
Swoln heart-shaped heads, flattened as by a heel,
Erect to suck the sunlight from the day,
And stealthily and gradually reveal

Dim cabalistic signs of spots and rings
Among their folds of faded tapestry;
Then these fat, foul, unbreathing, moving things
Droop back to stagnant immobility.



Arthur William Symons's other poems:
  1. Grey Hours: Naples
  2. At Glan-y-Wern
  3. Pastel: Masks and Faces
  4. In Fountain Court
  5. Haschisch


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