Arts & Sciences
The Worms at Heaven’s Gate
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.
* * * * *
Out of the tomb we bring Badroulbadour.
Cite this poem
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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