E-Verse Radio
  • About
    • Disclaimer
    • Videos
    • Subscribe
  • Ernest Hilbert’s Books

“Celle Qui Fut Heaulmiette” by Wallace Stevens

By Ernest Hilbert • April 2, 2018 • E-Verse Universe

Out of the first warmth of spring,
And out of the shine of the hemlocks,
Among the bare and crooked trees,
She found a helping from the cold,

Like a meaning in nothingness,
Like the snow before it softened
And dwindled into patches
Like a shelter not in an arc

But in a circle, not in the arc,
Of winter, in the unbroken circle
Of summer, at the windy edge,
Sharp in the ice shadow of the sky,

Blue for all that and white and hard,
And yet with water running in the sun,
Entinselled and gilderlinged and gone,
Another American vulgarity.

Into that native shield she slid,
Mistress of an idea, child
Of a mother with vague, severed arms
And of a father bearded in his fire.

The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens










Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Comments

comments

Celle Qui Fut HeaulmiettepoempoemspoetpoetryrodinstevenswallaceWallace Stevens
Tweet
0
"Easter Communion" by Gerard Manley Hopkins

No Comments

    Leave a Reply

    This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

    AoYotGE for National Poetry Month at the Cambridge Public Library

    About the Author

    ernest@everseradio.com'

    Ernest Hilbert

    Ernest Hilbert is founder of E-Verse Radio.

    Search E-Verse

    Subscribe to E-Verse

    Get new posts by email:

    Follow Along

    Videos

    Audio

    Facebook Twitter Soundcloud Youtube RSS

    Made with in Philly

    © 2018 E-Verse Radio All rights reserved.