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Alluring, Earth seducing, with high conceits
is the sunset that reigns
at the end of westward streets....
A sudden flaring sky
troubling strangely the passer by
with visions, alien to long streets, of Cytherea
or the smooth flesh of Lady Castlemaine....
A frolic of crimson
is the spreading glory of the sky,
heaven's jocund maid
flaunting a trailed red robe
along the fretted city roofs
about the time of homeward going crowds
--a vain maid, lingering, loth to go....
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This poem, together with "Autumn," is considered the birth of Imagism. It was published in 1909 with "Autumn" by The Poet's Club in London as part of a distributed Christmas booklet. By some sources, it was put alongside "Autumn" in later editions of Pound's Ripostes.
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