<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450028" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Statue And Birds</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here, in the withered arbor, like the arrested wind, <br>Straight sides, carven knees, <br>Stands the statue, with hands flung out in alarm <br>Or remonstrances. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Over the lintel sway the woven bracts of the vine <br>In a pattern of angles. <br>The quill of the fountain falters, woods rake on the sky <br>Their brusque tangles. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The birds walk by slowly, circling the marble girl, <br>The golden quails, <br>The pheasants, closed up in their arrowy wings, <br>Dragging their sharp tails. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The inquietudes of the sap and of the blood are spent. <br>What is forsaken will rest. <br>But her heel is lifted,—she would flee,—the whistle of the birds <br>Fails on her breast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Louise+Bogan">Louise Bogan</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=450028" data-title="Statue And Birds de Louise Bogan" data-description="Here, in the withered arbor, like the arrested wind, Straight sides, carven knees, Stands the statue, with hands flung out in alarm Or remonstrances. Over the lintel sway the woven bracts of the vine In a pattern of angles. The quill of the..."></div> </div> </div>

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