亚色影库app

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Summer 2004

Green

Author
Richard Purdy Wilbur
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Richard Wilbur, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1959, was the second poet to be named U.S. poet laureate. His volumes of verse include 鈥淭he Beautiful Changes鈥 (1947), 鈥淭hings of This World鈥 (1956; Pulitzer Prize), 鈥淣ew and Collected Poems鈥 (1988; Pulitzer Prize), and 鈥淢ayflies鈥 (2000). He has also published numerous translations of French plays, several books for children, and two collections of prose pieces. He is Emeritus Professor of English at Smith College.

Green


Tree-leaves which, till the growing-season鈥檚 done,
Change into wood the powers of the sun,

Take from that radiance only reds and blues.
Green is a color that they cannot use,

And so their rustling myriads are seen
To wear all summer an extraneous green,

A green with no apparent role, unless
To be the symbol of a great largesse

Which has no end, though autumn may revoke
That shade from yellowed ash and rusted oak.