Yvor Winters Dark Poems

  • 1.
    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.
    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.
    My mother
    Foresaw deaths
    And walked among
    Chrysanthemums,
    ...
  • 4.
    God spoke once in the dark: dead sound
    in the dead silence. I turned
    in my sleep.
          I slept and sank away.
    ...
  • 5.
    Europe: 1944
    as regarded from a great distance


    ...
  • 6.
    Immeasurable haze:
    The desert valley spreads
    Up golden river-beds
    As if in other days.
    ...
Total 6 Dark Poems by Yvor Winters

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