Jasmine's Beautiful Thoughts Underneath The Willow
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"Jasmine's Beautiful Thoughts Underneath The Willow" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium.[1] It was first published in 1923 and is therefore still under copyright. However, fair use in scholarly commentary justifies its being quoted here.
Jasmine's Beautiful Thoughts Underneath The Willow
My titillations have no foot-notes
And their memorials are the phrases
Of idiosyncratic music.
The love that will not be transported
In an old, frizzled, flambeaud manner,
But muses on its eccentricity,
Is like a vivid apprehension
Of bliss beyond the mutes of plaster,
Or paper souvenirs of rapture,
Of bliss submerged beneath appearance,
In an interior ocean's rocking
Of long, capricious fugues and chorals.