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Title: Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky
Author: Robert Pinsky
ISBN: 0691013225
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1975
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reissue
Number of Pages: 74
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From Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky:
CEREMONY FOR ANY BEGINNING
Robert Pinsky Against weather, and the random
Harpies–mood, circumstance, the laws
Of biography, chance, physics–
The unseasonable soul holds forth,
Eager for form as a renowned
Pedant, the emperor’s man of worth,
Hereditary arbiter of manners. Soul, one’s life is one’s enemy.
As the small children learn, what happens
Takes over, and what you were goes away.
They learn it in sardonic soft
Comments of the weather, when it sharpens
The hard surfaces of daylight: light
Winds, vague in direction, like blades Lavishing their brilliant strokes
All over a wrecked house,
The nude wallpaper and the brute
Intelligence of the torn pipes.
Therefore when you marry or build
Pray to be untrue to the plain
Dominance of your own weather, how it keeps Going even in the woods when not
A soul is there, and how it implies
Always that separate, cold
Splendidness, uncouth and unkind–
On chilly, unclouded mornings,
Torrential sunlight and moist air,
Leafage and solid bark breathing the mist.
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