ASFÒDELS.04 —But in his lapel, discreetly, he wore a sprig of asphodel — LEONARD COHEN
Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld
so I can sigh eternally
Kurt Cobain
Pennyroyal Tea
Nirvana – In Utero
Well, my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I’m crazy for love but I’m not coming on
I’m just paying my rent every day in the Tower of Song
Leonard Cohen
Tower of Song
Satan in Westmount
One noticed his hands,
finely carved,
almost the colour of jade,
and the fingernails,
pink and cultivated.
He spoke of Art
and of poetry
and held us with descriptions
of the Masters.
Often when walking
he sang fragments
of austere Spanish songs
from the Court of Ferdinand,
and quoted Dante
accurately and often.
But in his lapel,
discreetly,
he wore a sprig of asphodel.
Leonard Cohen
Let Us Compare Mythologies (1956)