yellow spring

yellow spring

This vertical image features English text from "Yellow Spring (Primavera amarilla)" by Juan Ramón Jiménez. The poem is written on squares of orange and yellow hues.

Inscribed: Yellow Spring / April came, full / Of yellow flowers, / The brook was yellow / The stone walls were yellow, the hill, / The children's graveyard, / And the orchard where love was living. / The sun anointed the world with yellow / With down pouring rays. / Ah through the golden Lillies, / The warm golden water, / The yellow butterflies / Over the golden roses. / April came, full / Of yellow flowers / The brook was yellow / The stone walls were yellow, the hill / The children's graveyard, / And the orchard where love was / living / Yellow garlands were climbing / Up the trees, the day / Was a grace perfumed with gold / In a golden awakening of life / Among the bones of the dead, / God opened his yellow hands. Jimenez

1962

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