domenica 8 marzo 2015

A light exists in spring


Emily Dickinson 
(1830–86).  
Complete Poems.  1924

A light exists in spring
  Not present on the year
At any other period.
  When March is scarcely here
  
A color stands abroad         
On solitary hills
That silence cannot overtake,
  But human nature feels.
  
It waits upon the lawn;
  It shows the furthest tree         
Upon the furthest slope we know;
  It almost speaks to me.
  
Then, as horizons step,
  Or noons report away,
Without the formula of sound,
  It passes, and we stay:
  
A quality of loss
  Affecting our content,
As trade had suddenly encroached
  Upon a sacrament

Calendario 1999, Demetra Edizioni

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