Hugh Sykes Davies

Here you will find the Poem Decline of Phæthon of poet Hugh Sykes Davies

Decline of Phæthon

i 40-Phæthon?s
leash more suns
for caravan
with your body?s-span
more zodiac?s bears
than eye unbars
show-crabs and goats
than telescopes
yet must decline
in rounded time
of 40 suns
I, ? Phæthon?s!

and suffer this preferment
because you pierce dreams
because you overhang
night?s snarl with body?s-fang
see where my blood
streams
in the firmament