A Bibliography of the King’s Book or, Eikon Basilike
By Susan Howe
II. Conversion
I like to be stationary.
—Bartleby
Who is not a wild Enthusiast
in a green meadow
furious and fell
Arriving on the stage of history
I saw madness of the world
Stripped of falsification
and corruption
anthems were singing in Authorem
Father and the Father
by my words will I be justified
Autobiography I saw
Legal righteousness makes us servants
All good hearers
Opposers or despisers
Night page torn word missing
The family silence
gave up the ghost
I feared the fall of my child
resting quietly with some hopes
as a bird before any
Election—Vocation—
Justification—
Cape of Wind wreathe
fame out laughing
Seated on a cloud
Seacret drift
seacretly behest
the dear She
comes to all Guilty
all circling
Eye window soul body
Pride cannot bow
Ariadne’s diadem
zodiac helmet belt
Copyright Credit: Susan Howe, excerpt from “A Bibliography of the King’s Book or, Eikon Basilike” from The Noncomformist's Memorial. Copyright © 1993 by Susan Howe. Reprinted with the permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Source: The Nonconformist's Memorial (New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1993)