Arts & Sciences

The Worms at Heaven’s Gate

by Wallace Stevens 1879–1955

From Harmonium (1923)

Arts & Sciences

Out of the tomb, we bring Badroulbadour,
Within our bellies, we her chariot.
Here is an eye. And here are, one by one,
The lashes of that eye and its white lid.
Here is the cheek on which that lid declined,
And, finger after finger, here, the hand,
The genius of that cheek. Here are the lips,
The bundle of the body and the feet.

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Out of the tomb we bring Badroulbadour.

MLA

Stevens, Wallace. “The Worms at Heaven’s Gate.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevens/25/.

Chicago

Stevens, Wallace. “The Worms at Heaven’s Gate.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevens/25/.

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