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Elinor Wylie
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“Under oak, ash and thorn My soul was born. Under thorn, oak and ash My body bent to the lash.”
Elinor Wylie (1885–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Beltane", published in Last Poems of Elinor Wylie (1943)
“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.”
Elinor Wylie (1885–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong; All seasons sweet, but autumn best of all. The squirrels in their silver fur will fall Like falling leaves, like fruit, before your shot.”
Elinor Wylie (1885–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird’s beak, We shall live well — we shall live very well.”
Elinor Wylie (1885–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Elinor Wylie (1885–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love those skies, thin blue or snowy gray, Those fields sparse-planted, rendering meagre sheaves; That spring, briefer than apple-blossom’s breath, Summer, so much too beautiful to stay, Swift autumn, like a bonfire of leaves, And sleepy winter, like the sleep of death.”
Elinor Wylie (1885–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The rain’s cold grains are silver-gray Sharp as golden sands, A bell is clanging, people sway Hanging by their hands.”
Elinor Wylie (1885–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Orchard of the strangest fruits Hanging from the skies; Brothers, yet insensate brutes Who fear each others’ eyes.”
Elinor Wylie (1885–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One man stands as free men stand As if his soul might be Brave, unbroken; see his hand Nailed to an oaken tree.”
Elinor Wylie (1885–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source