You won’t get me to believe in disgusting flies– revenge and selfish desires.I believe in strong hyacinths dripping ancient juice. Lilies heal and cleanse like my own power.You won’t get me to believe in disgusting fliesspreading stench and contagion.I believe […]
Edith Södergran: Discovery
Your love darkens my star –the moon rises in my life.My hand is not at home in yours.Your hand is desire –mine is longing.
Edith Södergran: Dusk
The night comes great with its flossy beardand smiles broadly to all the halfway veiled.Colossal and shapeless all the shapes of the park grow outof the silent lilacs in the dusk.The pretty lilacs have sleepy ears,they dream that the sun […]
Edith Södergran: To a Young Woman
Never did a lusty glance deceive.Hold the man’s heart between your inexperienced child-fingers,draw the man’s flames into the icy chamber of your eyes!You believe in love like you believe in Heaven.He shall give you his heart, a realm and all […]
Edith Södergran: Triumph To Exist
What do I fear? I am part of infinity.I am part of the great force of the All,a lonely world in millions of worlds,a first degree star that is extinguished last.Triumph to live, triumph to breathe, triumph to exist!Triumph to feel […]
Edith Södergran: Introductory Remark
That my writing is poetry none can deny, that it’s on verses I won’t postulate. I have attempted to give certain reluctant poems a rhythm and have thereby observed that I only own the skill of images and words in […]