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Return to List of Poems by T. S. Eliot - by Title
Return to List of Poems by T. S. Eliot - by Extract“But weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.”
(T.S. Eliot)
I particularly enjoy the lyrical turns of phrase and vivid imagery in this moving poem. – Simon Rees, March 2007
La Figlia che Piange
T. S. Eliot, 1917
O quam te memorem virgo…
Stand on the highest pavement of the stair —
Lean on a garden urn —
Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair —
Clasp your flowers to you with a pained surprise —
Fling them to the ground and turn
With a fugitive resentment in your eyes:
But weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.So I would have had him leave,
So I would have had her stand and grieve,
So he would have left
As the soul leaves the body torn and bruised,
As the mind deserts the body it has used.
I should find
Some way incomparably light and deft,
Some way we both should understand,
Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.She turned away, but with the autumn weather
Compelled my imagination many days,
Many days and many hours:
Her hair over her arms and her arms full of flowers.
And I wonder how they should have been together!
I should have lost a gesture and a pose.
Sometimes these cogitations still amaze
The troubled midnight and the noon’s repose.Return to List of Poems by T. S. Eliot - by Title
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