Yvor Winters Fire Poems

  • 1.
    Dear Emily, my tears would burn your page,
    But for the fire-dry line that makes them burnâ??
    Burning my eyes, my fingers, while I turn
    Singly the words that crease my heart with age.
    ...
  • 2.
    Now every leaf, though colorless, burns bright
    With disembodied and celestial light,
    And drops without a movement or a sound
    A pillar of darkness to the shifting ground.
    ...
  • 3.
    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
    ...
  • 4.
    I was the patriarch of the shining land,
    Of the blond summer and metallic grain;
    Men vanished at the motion of my hand,
    And when I beckoned they would come again.
    ...
  • 5.
    Amid the iris and the rose,
    The honeysuckle and the bay,
    The wild earth for a moment goes
    In dust or weed another way.
    ...
  • 6.
    The night was faint and sheer;
    Immobile, road and dune.
    Then, for a moment, clear,
    A plane moved past the moon.
    ...
Total 6 Fire Poems by Yvor Winters

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