Monday, February 22, 2010

A poem by Ezra Pound

Thank you Jane for sending me this beautiful poem:

A Girl

The tree has entered my hands
The sap has ascended my arms,
The tree has grown in my breast-
Downward,
The branches grow out of me, like arms.

Tree you are,
Moss you are,
You are violets with wind above them.
A child- so high - you are,
And all this is folly to the world.

2 comments:

  1. Wordworth's Lucy poem made me think of you guys and Salome

    A violet by a mossy stone
    Half hidden from the eye
    Fair as a star, when only one
    Is shining in the sky.

    She lived unknown, and few could know
    When Lucy ceased to be;
    But she is in her grave, and oh,
    The difference to me!

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  2. Wow! Thanks Margot, I love it. Particularly the last 2 lines.

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