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Tag: More Women Poets
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I wish he were the polar star in heaven,
or the little Pleiads seven,
And I would be the best astronomer
that ever watched for even.
I wish he were the sun from East to West-
even for me to see…what of the rest?-
I would not grudge their share, or mind…
or if he were the wind,
Then he would seek out sometimes , even me.
Or if he were a bird of any kind
I´d have his cry so fair
I´d lure him into any snare-
And then, Would I not free him?
But since nowhere I see him
Sometimes , In my sad breast,
I wish him dead, best. -
THE FORGOTTEN UMBRELLA.
Upon the sound of rain
she took a pad of paper, a pen
and a few words about a youngness,
a loneliness
and a next day; then rushed out.Her heart
just as an umbrella
left on the corner
and was forgotten.’-by Farrideh Hassanzadeh
Last week I published Nelly Sachs in translation by Marianne Agren Mc Elroy. This week ‘The Forgotten Umbrella’, by Farrideh Hassanzadeh- translator and poet.
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My future will not copy fair my past —
I wrote that once, and thinking at my side
My ministering life-angel justified
The word by his appealing look upcast
To the white throne of God, I turned at last,
And there, instead, saw thee, not unallied
To angels in thy soul! Then I, long tried
By natural ills, received the comfort fast,
While budding, at thy sight, my pilgrim’s staff
Gave out green leaves with morning dew impearled.
I seek no copy now of life’s first half:
Leave here the pages with long musing curled,
And write me my new future’s epigraph,
New angel mine, unhoped for in the world!
Of course Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s rhyme schemes drove the literary establishment cracked, the mention of her name for the Laureateship ( after the death of Wordsworth) was not truly in earnest but it was good discussions began…..
The Sonnets from the Portuguese were written to Robert and handed to him after their elopement , when he was in deep grief over a death in his family. 341 years after the name of Barret-Browning was mentioned in jest for the British Laureateship, the cycle of male-domination of these laurels was broken by Carol Ann Duffy in 2009 !
23/04/08
Chris Murray 