The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems by Wallace Stevens

Author:Wallace Stevens [Stevens, Wallace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486161976
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-08T16:00:00+00:00

II

A red bird flies across the golden floor.

It is a red bird that seeks out his choir

Among the choirs of wind and wet and wing.

A torrent will fall from him when he finds.

Shall I uncrumple this much-crumpled thing?

I am a man of fortune greeting heirs;

For it has come that thus I greet the spring.

These choirs of welcome choir for me farewell.

No spring can follow past meridian.

Yet you persist with anecdotal bliss

To make believe a starry connaissance.

III

Is it for nothing, then, that old Chinese

Sat tittivating by their mountain pools

Or in the Yangste studied out their beards?

I shall not play the flat historic scale.

You know how Utamaro’s beauties sought

The end of love in their all-speaking braids.

You know the mountainous coiffures of Bath.

Alas! Have all the barbers lived in vain

That not one curl in nature has survived?

Why, without pity on these studious ghosts,

Do you come dripping in your hair from sleep?

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