Author: Stephen Spender

Cites

• W. H. Auden (1)
  • IN: The Temple (1988) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Came summer like a flood, did never greediest gardeneer Make blossoms flusher: Sunday meant lakes for many, a browner body, Beauty from burning: Far out in the water two heads discussed the position, Out of the reeds like a fowl jumped the undressed German, And Stephen signalled from the sand dunes like a wooden madman 'Destroy this temple.' It did fall. The quick hare died to the hounds' hot breathing, The Jewes fled Southwards
    FROM: first of Six Odes, (1932), Poem, England/US