Yvor Winters Hard 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.
    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
    ...
  • 3.
    My mother
    Foresaw deaths
    And walked among
    Chrysanthemums,
    ...
  • 4.
    You would extend the mind beyond the act,
    Furious, bending, suffering in thin
    And unpoetic dicta; you have been
    Forced by hypothesis to fiercer fact.
    ...
  • 5.
    The calloused grass lies hard
    Against the cracking plain:
    Life is a grayish stain;
    The salt-marsh hems my yard.
    ...
  • 6.
    This is the terminal: the light
    Gives perfect vision, false and hard;
    The metal glitters, deep and bright/
    Great planes are waiting in the yard-
    ...
Total 6 Hard Poems by Yvor Winters

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