Yvor Winters Dark Poems
- 1. On A View Of Pasadena From The Hills
From the high terrace porch I watch the dawn.
No light appears, though dark has mostly gone,
Sunk from the cold and monstrous stone. The hills
Lie naked but not light. The darkness spills
... - 2. The Slow Pacific Swell
Far out of sight forever stands the sea,
Bounding the land with pale tranquillity.
When a small child, I watched it from a hill
At thirty miles or more. The vision still
... - 3. Dark Spring
My mother
Foresaw deaths
And walked among
Chrysanthemums,
... - 4. The Precision
God spoke once in the dark: dead sound
in the dead silence. I turned
in my sleep.
I slept and sank away.
... - 5. Night Of Battle
Europe: 1944
as regarded from a great distance
... - 6. To The Holy Spirit
Immeasurable haze:
The desert valley spreads
Up golden river-beds
As if in other days.
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