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The Spice-Box of Earth is Canadian poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen's second collection of poetry. It was first published in 1961 by McClelland and Stewart, when Cohen was 27 years old. The book brought the poet a measure of early literary acclaim.
- Leonard Cohen
- 1961
the river and the wind, then you pray the whole cold night before, under the travelling cordless moon, to make you worthy and lyric and pure.” ― Leonard Cohen, The Spice-Box of Earth
- Leonard Cohen
- 1961
I Long to Hold Some Lady from The Spice Box of Earth. I long to hold some lady For my love is far away, And will not come tomorrow And was not here today. There is no flesh so perfect As on my lady's bone, And yet it seems so distant When I am all alone: As though she were a masterpiece In some castled town, That pilgrims come to visit And ...
Now the sharp stars are in the sky And I am shivering as I did last night, And the wind is not warmer For the yellow butterfly Folded somewhere on a sticky leaf And moving like a leaf itself.
A kite is a fish you have already caught in a pool where no fish come, so you play him carefully and long, and hope he won't give up, or the wind die down.
The Spice-Box of Earth. Leonard Cohen. 4.15. 846 ratings78 reviews. Místico, Profano, Obsceno, Sarcástico, Osado. Estos fueron los calificativos con lo que fue recibido el libro La caja de especias de la tierra en 1961.
Notes. Summary. The most popular and commercially successful of Cohen's early books, it established his poetic reputation within Canada. While the book contains some of his most gorgeous and richly romantic lyrics (Owning Everything, As the Mist Leaves No Scar), there is also a dark underside to many of the poems, and images of death and ...