Polyphony In A Cathedral

A. S. J. TessimondA. S. J. Tessimond

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Music curls
In the stone shells
Of the arches, and rings
Their stone bells.Music lips
Each cold groove
Of parabolas' laced
Warp and woof,
And lingers round nodes
Of the ribbed roofChords open
Their flowers among
The stone flowers; blossom;
Stalkless hang.
A. S. J. Tessimond
About the poet

A. S. J. Tessimond

1902 - 1962/EnglishArthur Seymour John Tessimond was an English poet. After studying at Liverpool University, he moved to London where he worked in bookshops, and also as a copywriter. He later moved to France. An eccentric and an Imagist, Tessimond wrote ast…

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