Poem-A-Day: Images by Richard Aldington

January 25, 2014 Images by Richard Aldington   I    Like a gondola of green scented fruits Drifting along the dank canals of Venice, You, O exquisite one, Have entered into my desolate city.   II    The blue smoke leaps Like swirling clouds of birds vanishing. So my love leaps forth toward you, Vanishes and is renewed.   III    A rose-yellow moon in a pale sky When the sunset is faint vermilion In the mist among the tree-boughs Art thou to me, my beloved.   IV    A young beech tree on the edge of the forest Stands still in the evening, Yet shudders through all its leaves in the light air And seems to fear the stars-- So are you still and so tremble.   V    The red deer are high on the mountain, They are beyond the last pine trees. And my desires have run with them.   VI    The flower which the wind has shaken Is soon filled again with rain; So does my heart fill slowly with tears, O Foam-Driver, Wind-of-the-Vineyards, Until you return.      Today's poem is in the public domain. About This Poem  "Images" by Richard Aldington was first published in 1916 in Aldington's collection, Images, Old and New (The Four Seas Press, 1916). One of the founders of Imagist poetry, Aldington aimed to replace abstractions with exactness of observed detail and apt metaphors. Poetry by Aldington   The Poems of Richard Aldington (Forgotten Books, 2012)          Poem-A-Day Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-A-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day Archive.     Richard Aldington was a novelist, critic, essayist, translator, and a founding poet of the Imagist movement. He died on July 27, 1962, in France. Related Poems The Divine Image by William Blake  Stars Wheel in Purple by H. D.  Imagining Starry by Marie Ponsot  __________________________ Love reading Poem-A-Day? Help support it today.     Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.

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