Issue #20 (2011) PDF - myweb - Long Island University
Issue #20 (2011) PDF - myweb - Long Island University
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THINGS I LOVE<br />
I love fine porcelain, bronze, crystal ware,<br />
lush stained-glass windows wrought by master hands,<br />
beflowered tapestries of golden strands<br />
and bright Venetian moons beyond compare.<br />
I love likewise Castilian ladies fair,<br />
medieval lays from troubadour-rich lands,<br />
Arabian steeds a-wing on foreign sands,<br />
the lightness of a German ballad‘s air,<br />
the rich piano‘s sonorous ivory keys,<br />
the horn that resonates within the field,<br />
pale olibanum‘s balsam redolence<br />
and that gold, marble, sandalwood bed‘s ease<br />
wherein pure virgin loveliness will yield<br />
the bloodied flower of its innocence.<br />
Trans. G. J. Racz<br />
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