16 SEPTEMBER 1955, page 20

Salzburg

A NEW opera is included each year at the Salzburg Festival, but since Richard Strauss's The Love of Dance was presented in 1952, the new works, The Trial by von Einam and......

Queen Arsinoe Ii

'Pure daughters of the Greeks come here to pray . . POSIDIPPUS, Epigram on the temple of Arsinoe- Aphrodite-Zephyritis. This was a vital woman. A king's daughter She married a......

To A Grounded Sailor

What shores, or whores, cerulean-eyed, White-sanded, white-limbed, peppered With pines and shady spots to nap Away the randy noon, have you visited? How many babes or dreams,......

Three New Poems

Afternoon Tea An index dream or drinking bout, Her bitter monologue gathered speed In a sharp sleeper's voice. He watched The little wicket click unlatched And the starved......