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The Lion and the Rose: Poems
De May Sarton
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Commencer à lire- Éditeur:
- Open Road Media
- Sortie:
- Mar 25, 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781480474345
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- Livre
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Written in Santa Fe, New Mexico, May Sarton’s third collection of poems takes inspiration from the land, the light, and the palette of the American Southwest. With archaeological precision, Sarton uncovers American history and heredity. “Plain grandeur escapes definition,” begins one poem. But Sarton’s America is alive with history and is continually redefined by its own settings and mythology.
Informations sur le livre
The Lion and the Rose: Poems
De May Sarton
Description
Written in Santa Fe, New Mexico, May Sarton’s third collection of poems takes inspiration from the land, the light, and the palette of the American Southwest. With archaeological precision, Sarton uncovers American history and heredity. “Plain grandeur escapes definition,” begins one poem. But Sarton’s America is alive with history and is continually redefined by its own settings and mythology.
- Éditeur:
- Open Road Media
- Sortie:
- Mar 25, 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781480474345
- Format:
- Livre
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THEME AND VARIATIONS:
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO
MEDITATION IN SUNLIGHT
In space in time I sit
Thousands of feet above
The sea and meditate
On solitude on love
Near all is brown and poor
Houses are made of earth
Sun opens every door
The city is a hearth
Far all is blue and strange
The sky looks down on snow
And meets the mountain range
Where time is light not shadow
Time in the heart held still
Space as the household god
And joy instead of will
Knows love as solitude
Knows solitude as love
Knows time as light not shadow
Thousands of feet above
The sea where I am now
Who wear an envelope
Of crystal air and learn
That space is also hope
Where sky and snow both burn
Where spring is love not weather
And I happy alone
The place the time together
The sun upon the stone.
DIFFICULT SCENE
This landscape does not speak,
Exists, is simply there.
Take it or leave it; the weak
Suffer from fierce air.
For these high desolate
Lands where earth is skeleton
Make no demands; they state.
Who can resist the stone?
Implacable tranquility
That searches out the naked heart,
Touches the quick of anxiety
And breaks the world apart.
The angel in the flaming air
Is everywhere and no escape,
Asking of life that it be pure
And given as the austere landscape.
And most accompanied when alone;
Most sensitive when mastered sense;
Alive most when the will is gone,
Absence become the greatest Presence.
The golden landscape cannot save,
It only asks your right to be