Arts & Sciences

Another Weeping Woman

by Wallace Stevens 1879–1955

From Harmonium (1923)

Arts & Sciences

Pour the unhappiness out
From your too bitter heart,
Which grieving will not sweeten.

Poison grows in this dark.
It is in the water of tears
Its black blooms rise.

The magnificent cause of being,
The imagination, the one reality
In this imagined world

Leaves you
With him for whom no phantasy moves,
And you are pierced by a death.

MLA

Stevens, Wallace. “Another Weeping Woman.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevens/19/.

Chicago

Stevens, Wallace. “Another Weeping Woman.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevens/19/.

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