<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343762" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Captured Goddess</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Over the housetops,<br>Above the rotating chimney-pots,<br>I have seen a shiver of amethyst,<br>And blue and cinnamon have flickered<br>A moment,<br>At the far end of a dusty street.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through sheeted rain<br>Has come a lustre of crimson,<br>And I have watched moonbeams<br>Hushed by a film of palest green.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was her wings,<br>Goddess!<br>Who stepped over the clouds,<br>And laid her rainbow feathers<br>Aslant on the currents of the air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I followed her for long,<br>With gazing eyes and stumbling feet.<br>I cared not where she led me,<br>My eyes were full of colours:<br>Saffrons, rubies, the yellows of beryls,<br>And the indigo-blue of quartz;<br>Flights of rose, layers of chrysoprase,<br>Points of orange, spirals of vermilion,<br>The spotted gold of tiger-lily petals,<br>The loud pink of bursting hydrangeas.<br>I followed,<br>And watched for the flashing of her wings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the city I found her,<br>The narrow-streeted city.<br>In the market-place I came upon her,<br>Bound and trembling.<br>Her fluted wings were fastened to her sides with cords,<br>She was naked and cold,<br>For that day the wind blew<br>Without sunshine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Men chaffered for her,<br>They bargained in silver and gold,<br>In copper, in wheat,<br>And called their bids across the market-place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Goddess wept.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hiding my face I fled,<br>And the grey wind hissed behind me,<br>Along the narrow streets.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Amy+Lowell">Amy Lowell</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343762" data-title="The Captured Goddess de Amy Lowell" data-description="Over the housetops, Above the rotating chimney-pots, I have seen a shiver of amethyst, And blue and cinnamon have flickered A moment, At the far end of a dusty street. Through sheeted rain Has come a lustre of crimson, And I have watched moonbeam..."></div> </div> </div>

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