A Change of World by Adrienne Rich

A Change of World by Adrienne Rich

Author:Adrienne Rich
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016-02-23T16:00:00+00:00


AN UNSAID WORD

She who has power to call her man

From that estranged intensity

Where his mind forages alone,

Yet keeps her peace and leaves him free,

And when his thoughts to her return

Stands where he left her, still his own,

Knows this the hardest thing to learn.

MATHILDE IN NORMANDY

From the archaic ships the green and red

Invaders woven in their colored hosts

Descend to conquer. Here is the threaded headland,

The warp and woof of a tideless beach, the flight,

Recounted by slow shuttles, of swift arrows,

And the outlandish attitudes of death

In the stitched soldiery. That this should prove

More than the personal episode, more than all

The little lives sketched on the teeming loom

Was then withheld from you; self-conscious history

That writes deliberate footnotes to its action

Was not of your young epoch. For a pastime

The patient handiwork of long-sleeved ladies

Was esteemed proper when their lords abandoned

The fields and apple trees of Normandy

For harsher hunting on the opposite coast.

Yours was a time when women sat at home

To the pleasing minor airs of lute and hautbois,

While the bright sun on the expensive threads

Glowed in the long windless afternoons.



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