Gift by Czesław Miłosz - Scottish Poetry Library
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A day so happy. / Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden. / Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. / There was no thing on...
A day so happy. Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I knew no one worth my envying him. Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot. To think that once I was the same man did not embarrass me. In my body I felt no pain. When straightening up, I saw the blue sea and sails. Czesław Miłosz from New & Collected Poems 1931-2001 (Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 2001), copyright © Czesław Miłosz Royalties Inc., 1988, 1991, 1995, 2001. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd About…
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