The Window

Conrad AikenConrad Aiken

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She looks out in the blue morning
and sees a whole wonderful world
she looks out in the morning
and sees a whole worldshe leans out of the window
and this is what she sees
a wet rose singing to the sun
with a chorus of red beesshe leans out of the window
and laughs for the window is high
she is in it like a bird on a perch
and they scoop the blue skyshe and the window scooping
the morning as if it were air
scooping a green wave of leaves
above a stone stairand an urn hung with leaden garlands
and girls holding hands in a ring
and raindrops on an iron railing
shining like a harp stringan old man draws with his ferrule
in wet sand a map of Spain
the marble soldier on his pedestal
draws a stiff diagram of painbut the walls around her tremble
with the speed of the earth the floor
curves to the terrestrial center
and behind her the dooropens darkly down to the beginning
far down to the first simple cry
and the animal waking in water
and the opening of the eyeshe looks out in the blue morning
and sees a whole wonderful world
she looks out in the morning
and sees a whole world.
Conrad Aiken
About the poet

Conrad Aiken

1889 - 1973/AmericanConrad Potter Aiken was an American novelist and poet, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, and an autobiography. Aiken was deeply influenced by symbolism, especially in his earlier works. In 1930 he received the Pulitzer Pri…

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