First linesMina Loy

1. a lyric elixir of death Poe
2. A silver Lucifer Lunar Baedeker
3. A thousand women’s eyes At the Door of the House
4. All the virgin eyes in the world are made of glass Magasins du Louvre
5. Baby Priests The Black Virginity
6. Curie Gertrude Stein
7. Her father Costa Magic
8. I am the centre Parturition
9. Little tapers lighted leaning diagonally Café du Néant
10. Man of absolute physical equilibrium Sketch of a Man on a Platform
11. O far away on the Benign Peninsular Lions’ Jaws
12. Old lady sitting still July in Vallombrosa
13. Ostracized as we are with God⁠— Apology of Genius
14. Small Elena Babies in Hospital
15. Spawn of Fantasies Songs to Joannes
16. The belching ghost-wail of the locomotive Mexican Desert
17. The city To You
18. The door was an absurd thing The Effectual Marriage
19. The human cylinders Human Cylinders
20. The threewomen who all walked Giovanni Franchi
21. The toy Brâncuși’s Golden Bird
22. the whipper snapper child of the sun Perlun
23. There is no Life or Death, There Is No Life or Death
24. Though you had never possessed me One O’Clock at Night
25. We English make a tepid blot The Costa San Giorgio
26. We have flowed out of ourselves The Dead

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