who were so dark at heart

POSTED IN classic poetry March 30, 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

who were so dark at heart

who were so dark of heart they might not speak, 
a little innocence will make them sing; 
teach them to see who could not learn to look 
–from the reality of all nothing 

will actually lift a luminous whole; 
turn sheer despairing to most perfect gay, 
nowhere to here, never too beautiful: 
a little innocence creates a day. 

And something thought or done or wished without 
a little innocence, although it were 
as red as terror and as green as fate, 
greyly shall fall and dully disappear– 

but the proud power of himself death immense 
is not so as a little innocence

 

 

 

e e cummings