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Frances, the poet clearly says: 'you are so young...*and such a child''.*
2010/3/20 frances assa <franassa@hotmail.com>
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> Since the object of the poet's affections is described as "childlike"
> she cannot be a child. But yes, the poem is reminiscent of HH, whom VN in a
> November 1951 letter described his work in progress as about "a very moral
> middle-aged gentleman who falls very immorally in love with his
> stepdaughter, a girl of thirteen.” HH was certainly was transformed. One
> wonders how VN might have transformed TOoL.
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> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:03:08 +0100
> From: hafidbouazza@GMAIL.COM
> Subject: [NABOKV-L] HH&Symons
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
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> Dear List,
>
> Doesn't this poem remind you of HH sleepless in bed, next to Lolita, in
> hotel The Enchanted Hunters?
>
>
>
> *Dawn* by: Arthur Symons<http://www.blackcatpoems.com/s/arthur_symons.html>
> (1865-1945)
>
>
> Here in the little room
> You sleep the sleep of innocent tired youth<http://www.notable-quotes.com/y/youth_quotes.html>
> ,
> While I, in very sooth,
> Tired, and awake beside you in the gloom,
> Watch for the dawn, and feel the morning make
> A loneliness about me for your sake. You are so young, so fair,
> And such a child, and might have loved so well;
> And now, I cannot tell,
> But surely one might love you anywhere,
> Come to you as a lover, and make bold
> To beg for that which all may buy with gold. Your sweet, scarce lost,
> estate
> Of innocence <http://www.notable-quotes.com/i/innocence_quotes.html>, the
> candour of your eyes,
> Your childlike, pleased surprise,
> Your patience: these afflict me with a weight
> As of some heavy wrong that I must share
> With God who made, and man who found you, fair.
>
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2010/3/20 frances assa <franassa@hotmail.com>
>
> Since the object of the poet's affections is described as "childlike"
> she cannot be a child. But yes, the poem is reminiscent of HH, whom VN in a
> November 1951 letter described his work in progress as about "a very moral
> middle-aged gentleman who falls very immorally in love with his
> stepdaughter, a girl of thirteen.” HH was certainly was transformed. One
> wonders how VN might have transformed TOoL.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:03:08 +0100
> From: hafidbouazza@GMAIL.COM
> Subject: [NABOKV-L] HH&Symons
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
>
>
> Dear List,
>
> Doesn't this poem remind you of HH sleepless in bed, next to Lolita, in
> hotel The Enchanted Hunters?
>
>
>
> *Dawn* by: Arthur Symons<http://www.blackcatpoems.com/s/arthur_symons.html>
> (1865-1945)
>
>
> Here in the little room
> You sleep the sleep of innocent tired youth<http://www.notable-quotes.com/y/youth_quotes.html>
> ,
> While I, in very sooth,
> Tired, and awake beside you in the gloom,
> Watch for the dawn, and feel the morning make
> A loneliness about me for your sake. You are so young, so fair,
> And such a child, and might have loved so well;
> And now, I cannot tell,
> But surely one might love you anywhere,
> Come to you as a lover, and make bold
> To beg for that which all may buy with gold. Your sweet, scarce lost,
> estate
> Of innocence <http://www.notable-quotes.com/i/innocence_quotes.html>, the
> candour of your eyes,
> Your childlike, pleased surprise,
> Your patience: these afflict me with a weight
> As of some heavy wrong that I must share
> With God who made, and man who found you, fair.
>
> Search the archive<http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en> Contact
> the Editors <nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu> Visit "Nabokov
> Online Journal" <http://www.nabokovonline.com/> Visit Zembla<http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm> View
> Nabokv-L Policies <http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm> Manage
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