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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PEAR-TREE, by IWAN GOLL Poet's Biography First Line: Here once the evenings sobbed Last Line: And brings you a breath of sea, a memory of stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Yvan Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees; Pears | |||
Here once the evenings sobbed, Here once the angels lay in the curve of morning. How the hill streamed to your feet like a floating nymph, You god of the fields! And now: O pear-tree in despair's garden! Grizzled hunchback! Your hungry supplication, your slack begging arm Scratches the weary sun! Here the mourner squats of nights and jeers at autumn. And afternoons, the street-gamins chirp to you. A child's go-cart Leans in the imagined shadow of your foliage. You are a helpless, mute cry of the earth, Sick, afflicted tree, In the valley of rubbish heaps and tin cans! And only the autumn wind, your banished brother, Sometimes rains upon your galled spirit And brings you a breath of sea, a memory of stars. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LAST DAY OF AUGUST by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE A PEAR LIKE A POTATO by JOHN UPDIKE STUDY OF TWO PEARS by WALLACE STEVENS A LEAFY WELCOME by MARY JANE DEW ESPALIERED PEAR TREES by LINDA PASTAN CARAVAN OF LONGING by IWAN GOLL |
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