"Slant rimes" sounds like "yellow peril." "Idle Verse" looks like the source of Robert Bridges' "Nightingales" ("Beautiful must be the mountains whence ye come"), and related to Beckett's
vive morte ma seule saison
lis blancs chrysanthèmes
nids vifs abandonnés
boue des feuilles d'avril
beaux jours gris de givre
(quick dead my sole season/white lilies chrysanthemums/nests quick abandoned/mud of April leaves/fine days rime gray)
[This message has been edited by Christopher Mulrooney (edited December 02, 2001).]
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