A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue, Vowels; some day I shall reveal your birth: A, black velvet swarm of flies that over earth Buzz to the foulest stench, abyss of hue Sombre; E frank with smoke and fierce intents, Spears of proud glaciers, white kings, sun-shade strips; I purple of spitting blood, laugh of fair lips In anger or in drunken penitence; U, cycles, divine rhythm of the seas, Peace of beast-strewn pastures, wrinkles that crease Brows whereon the furrow of learning lies, O, great lightning, with strange clamors hurled Over the quiet of angels and the world, O omega, violet ray of her eyes. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE STRAPLESS by KAREN SWENSON THE LAMENTATION OF GLUMDALCLITCH FOR THE LOSS OF GRILDRIG by ALEXANDER POPE THE WIDOW'S LAMENT IN SPRINGTIME by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS POEM FOR PICTURE: TO A DRAWING OF A HORSE BY GEORGIO DI CHIRICO by FRANK ANKENBRAND JR. |