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Elinor Wylie: Cytaty po angielsku
"Beltane", published in Last Poems of Elinor Wylie (1943)
Elinor Wylie
książka
Nets to Catch the Wind
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Nets to Catch the Wind (1921), Wild Peaches
Kontekst: When the world turns completely upside down
You say we’ll emigrate to the Eastern Shore
Aboard a river-boat from Baltimore;
We’ll live among wild peach trees, miles from town,
You’ll wear a coonskin cap, and I a gown
Homespun, dyed butternut’s dark gold color.
Lost, like your lotus-eating ancestor,
We’ll swim in milk and honey till we drown.
“A bell is clanging, people sway
Hanging by their hands.”
Elinor Wylie
książka
Nets to Catch the Wind
Nets to Catch the Wind (1921), A Crowded Trolley Car
Kontekst: The rain’s cold grains are silver-gray
Sharp as golden sands,
A bell is clanging, people sway
Hanging by their hands.
“Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones
There’s something in this richness that I hate.”
Elinor Wylie
książka
Nets to Catch the Wind
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Nets to Catch the Wind (1921), Wild Peaches
Kontekst: Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones
There’s something in this richness that I hate.
I love the look, austere, immaculate,
Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones.
There’s something in my very blood that owns
Bare hills, cold silver on a sky of slate,
A thread of water, churned to milky spate
Streaming through slanted pastures fenced with stones.
“Brothers, yet insensate brutes
Who fear each others’ eyes.”
Elinor Wylie
książka
Nets to Catch the Wind
Nets to Catch the Wind (1921), A Crowded Trolley Car
Kontekst: Orchard of the strangest fruits
Hanging from the skies;
Brothers, yet insensate brutes
Who fear each others’ eyes.