I
London, my beautiful,
it is not the sunset
nor the pale green sky
shimmering through the curtain
of the silver birch,
nor the quietness;
it is not the hopping of birds
upon the lawn,
nor the darkness
stealing over all things
that moves me.
F.S. Flint's poem "I" was the first poem in a sequence published in Des Imagistes (1914), the first of the imagist anthologies. The anthology was first published as an issue of the little magazine The Glebe. To read this poem or the sequence in digitized versions of Des Imagistes, follow the links below:
Archive.org (Publisher: Albert and Charles Boni, NY)
The Blue Mountain Project (The Glebe)
The Modernist Journals Project (The Glebe)
The Modernist Journals Project (Publisher: Albert and Charles Boni, NY)
The Modernist Journals Project (Publisher: The Poetry Bookshop, London)