diff --git a/diary/2021-01-01.md b/diary/2021-01-01.md index fdca8a15..c5fbac93 100644 --- a/diary/2021-01-01.md +++ b/diary/2021-01-01.md @@ -86,3 +86,111 @@ Just they and I, with no need of reproof, And thank the thorns for making a hale fence, The compost for being my winter blanket. ''' + +----- + +## Analysis + +### Related + +"Winter" by Edward Esch + +''' +I. +The snow is falling, +sleeping, +whispering, +dreaming of water. + +II. +Gold, silver, iron, stone; +pure and gentle, silently melting, +the sun sings softly through the quiet ice. + +III. +A single snowflake awakens, +shimmers, +glows, +watches the world with weary eyes, +darkens, +settles, +and disappears. +''' + +From "Mid-Winter Songs" by Morten Lauridsen, text by Robert Graves + +''' +*Lament for Pasiphaƫ* + +Dying sun, shine warm a little longer! +My eye, dazzled with tears, shall dazzle yours +Conjuring you to shine and not to move +You, sun, and I all afternoon have laboured +Beneath a dewless and oppressive cloud-- +A fleece now gilded with our commen grief +That this must be a night without a moon +Dying sun, shine warm a little longer! + +Faithless she was not: she was very woman +Smiling with dire impartiality +Sovereign, with heart unmatched, adored of men +Until Spring's cuckoo with bedraggled plumes +Tempted her pity and her truth betrayed +Then she who shone for all resigned her being +And this must be a night without a moon +Dying sun, shine warm a little longer! + +*Like Snow* + +She, then, like snow in a dark night +Fell secretly. And the world waked +With dazzling of the drowsy eye +So that some muttered 'Too much light,' +And drew the curtains close +Like snow, warmer than fingers feared +And to soil friendly; +Holding the histories of the night +In yet unmelted tracks + +*She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep* + +She tells her love while half asleep +In the dark hours +With half-words whispered low: + +As Earth stirs in her winter sleep +And puts out grass and flowers +Despite the snow +Despite the falling snow + +*Mid-Winter Waking* + +Stirring suddenly from long hibernation +I knew myself once more a poet +Guarded by timeless prinicipalities +Against the worm of death, this hillside haunting; +And presently dared open both my eyes + +O gracious, lofty, shone against from under +Back-of-the-mind-far clouds like towers; +And you, sudden warm airs that blow +Before the expected season of new blossom +While sheep still gnaw at roots and lambless go-- + +Be witness that on waking, this mid-winter +I foudn her hand in mine laid closely +Who hsall watch out the Spring with me +We stared in silence all around us +But found no winter anywhere to see + +*Intercession in Late October* + +How hard the year dies: no frost yet +On drifts of yellow sand Midas reclines +Fearless of moaning reed or sullen wave +Firm and fragrant still the brambleberries +On ivy-bloom butterflies wag + +Spare him a little longer, Crone +For his clean hands and love-submissive heart +'''